Chicken Masala - part 1

 Ingredients

Chicken – 1 kg
Ghee or butter – 250 gm
Cumin seed – ½ tsp
Black pepper – 10 to 12
Cloves – 10 to 12
Black cardamom – 4
Cardamom – 6
Cinnamon – 1 piece
Yoghurt – 250 gm
Salt and chilli as per taste

Method

Wash chicken and cut into pieces and refrigerate it for 24 hours.  After that remove from fridge and wash it again. Add 250 gm water in yoghurt, except cloves and cinnamon; add rest of the ingredients to in the powdered form.

Take a deep frying pan and add ghee to it. When heated add, yoghurt and chicken and mix well.  Off the stove and leave it covered for two hours.

After two hours, cook on a low flame, till it is well cooked and the gravy becomes thick. Remove from fire and serve it with either Nan or chapatti.