Chicken Noorjahani

Ingredients

Chicken pieces – 500  gm

Chopped garlic – 7 to 8 cloves

Ginger – 1 inch grated

Onion – 1

Cream – 125 gm

Yoghurt - 125 gm

Chopped almonds - 4 to 5 tbl.sp

Lemon juice - 2 tsp

Cardamom powder - ½ tsp

Kewra essence – ¼ tsp

Pepper and salt as per taste

Method

Wash and cut chicken into small pieces.

Fry onion till golden brown in color and keep aside.

In the same oil, ginger garlic and fry for a minute and then to it add chicken pieces and stir fry on a high flame so that all the juices from the chicken is sealed inside.

Lower the flame and add cream, yoghurt, almond, pepper and salt and cover and  cook on a low flame till all the chicken pieces have become soft and tender, do not add water to it.

When done, add lemon juice, kewra essence, cardamom powder and mix well. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Garnish with fried onions and serve hot.

Chicken Noorjahani

Ingredients
Chicken – 1 kg
Ghee or butter – 300 gm
Yoghurt – 2 cup
Raisins – 14
Almonds – 12
Boiled egg – 4
Cardamom – 8
Cloves – 8
Cinnamon – 1 inch piece
Cumin seed – 1 tsp
Kesar – 1 pinch
Onion – 3 (Make a paste of these onions)
Ginger – 25 gm
Garlic – 8 flakes
Green chilli – 4
Salt as per taste

Method
Clean and wash the chicken and cut into pieces. Make a paste of ginger, garlic, green chilli, cloves, cinnamon, and cardamom and cumin seed. Apply this paste on the chicken and leave it three to four hours for marinating.
In a pan, heat ghee, add onion paste to it, when it is fried, add chicken,yoghurt, salt and kesar and cook on a low flame.
When it is cooked, add sliced eggs, sliced almonds and raisins to it.