Bhuna Masala Chicken

Ingredients

Poppy seed - 1 tsp

Cinnamon - 1 small piece

Cloves - 3 to 4

Black pepper - 1 tsp

Black cardamom - 1

Star aniseed - 1/2

Mace - ½

Cumin seed – 1 ½ tsp

Coriander seed - 2 tbl.sp

Red chilli - 2 to 3 or as per taste

5 to 6 flakes of Garlic

 one small piece of ginger

Yogurt - ½ cup

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt as per taste

Kasuri methi – 1 tsp

Juice of half lemon

Coriander leaves chopped

Little cream to garnish
Paste of 12 to 15 cashewnuts

Method
Wash and make cut in the chicken pieces.
Dry roast all the ingredients given and make a paste of it by adding ginger and garlic.
In a bowl, take half cup of  yogurt, turmeric powder, salt, half of the blended masala . Mix well and add chicken pieces to it. Mix well and let it marinate for few hours or overnight.

Shallow fry chicken pieces till it becomes dry. Remove and keep aside.
In the same pan add half of the blended masala, leftover marinated masala and chicken pieces. Cook on a slow flame for few minutes.

Add paste of cashewnut, mix well and cook for some more minutes stirring in between.
Add kasuri methi, juice of lemon. Off the flame and garnish with corriander leaves and little cream and serve hot with rice or roti.