Shahi Chicken

Ingredients

Chicken – 1 kg

Onion – 100 gm

Ginger – 50 gm

Garlic – 8 to 10 flakes

Yoghurt – 1 cup

Cream – 100 gm

Green chilli - 6

Turmeric powder – 1 tsp

Black pepper –  6

Cashewnut pieces – 10

Almonds – 10

Bay leaf – 3

Small cardamom – 6

Cinnamon – 1  inch

Cumin seed – ½ tsp

Powdered cloves – ½ tsp

Salt  and  as per taste.

Oil or ghee  for cooking

Method

Slice onions into thin pieces. Take a pan, add oil to it and then add onions, ginger and garlic (chopped into pieces) and fry till golden brown. Add cardamom, clove powder, cumin seed and fry. Then add washed and cut into medium pieces chicken and green chillies. When it is cooked, add yoghurt, kesar and salt to it and mix it well. After few minutes, add cream, cashew nuts and almonds and cook for few more minutes till the gravy becomes thick and separates from oil.