Chicken Masala -part 2

Ingredients

Chicken – 1 kg whole

Garlic – 12 to 13 cloves

Onion – 2

Ginger – 50 gm

Coriander seed – 10 gm

Nutmeg – 1

Javitri – 5 gm

Cloves -10

Black pepper – 5 gm

Red chilli -10gm

Green chilli – 10 gm

Yoghurt – 250 gm

Ghee or butter – 250 gm

Grated coconut – 100 gm

Method

Clean and refrigerate chicken for 24 hours. Wash it in salted water and then dry it with a clean cloth. Make a paste of all the ingredients, including onion, ginger and garlic and mix it with yoghurt. Take half of the masala and fill it inside the chicken and tie it with a thread. Other half apply over it. Leave it for half an hour.

After half an hour, heat ghee in a frying pan and add1 inch cinnamon and3 to 4 cardamom, when fried add chicken to it and fry it on a slow flame, turning it in between. Let it cook till it turns golden brown. Then add water to it as required and cover it with a lid. Cook till done.