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Chicken Rogan Josh


Ingredients:

¾ cup Ghee
1 kg Skinless boneless Chicken breast, cut into 1" pieces
3 Onions, paste
2"x1"Ginger, paste
8 Garlic cloves, paste
1 Cinnamon stick  
6 Cloves
10 Black Cardamom pods
10 Black peppercorns
1 tsp Aniseed
2 Bay leaves
1 tsp Coriander powder
2 tsp Cumin powder
2 tsp Cayenne powder
½ tsp Fine-grain salt
¾ cup Plain yogurt
1/8 teaspoon Saffron, crushed
1 cup Water

How to cook:

1.       Heat Ghee in a sauce pan. Fry chicken pieces to brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and set chicken aside.
2.   Add Onion Ginger and Garlic paste to hot Ghee. Fry on medium heat till water is gone and onions start to turn brown. About 10 minutes.
3.   Add Cinnamon, Cloves, Black Cardamom pods, Black peppercorns, Aniseed, and Bay leaves: Fry about one minute.
4.   Add Coriander, Cumin and salt, Fry one minute.
5.   Add yogurt in two stages before adding chicken and after adding chicken.
6.   Add half of the yogurt. Stir and cook till yogurt is blended in and consumed. Add chicken and remaining yogurt. 
7.   Stir and cook till yogurt is almost all gone. You have almost dry gray mixture.
8.   Sprinkle saffron over the Chicken, and add water. Stir. Bring to a boil. Turn down heat.
9.   Cook on low heat for about 25 minutes till the chicken is tender and the Ghee will start coming up to the top surface.

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