Name: Chicken Achari recipe by Aameena Ahmed at BetterButter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Chicken – 750 gms; Onions – 3 medium; FreshTomatoes – 4 medium; (remove the skin and puree them); Garlic ginger paste – 2 ½ tsp; Turmeric – 3/4th tsp; Red Chili powder – 2 tsp (pref Kashmiri); Salt – to taste; Fennel seeds – 1 tsp full; Kalonji – 1 tsp full; Mustard seeds – 1 tsp full; Fenugreek seeds – 1/8th tsp/8-10 seeds; whole Green chilies – 5 to 7; Chat masala – 2 tsbp; Lemon juice – 2 lemons; (enough to mix with chat masala); Yogurt – 3/4th cup; Oil – 1/2 cup

Ingredients Serving: 4

Chicken – 750 gms
Onions – 3 medium
FreshTomatoes – 4 medium
(remove the skin and puree them)
Garlic ginger paste – 2 ½ tsp
Turmeric – 3/4th tsp
Red Chili powder – 2 tsp (pref Kashmiri)
Salt – to taste
Fennel seeds – 1 tsp full
Kalonji – 1 tsp full
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp full
Fenugreek seeds – 1/8th tsp/8-10 seeds
whole Green chilies – 5 to 7
Chat masala – 2 tsbp
Lemon juice – 2 lemons
(enough to mix with chat masala)
Yogurt – 3/4th cup
Oil – 1/2 cup

Instructions

In a pan add one tsp oil, then add quartered onions and sauté for few minutes and then cool it and make it into a coarse paste.
Put two slight cross slits on tomatoes and put them into boiling water.. after 5 minutes, remove from the water peel the skin and blend them into a smooth paste.
Beat the curd and keep aside .
In a small bowl mix chat masala and lemon juice. Put slits on the whole green chilies and stuff them with chat masala and lemon juice mixture and keep aside.
Make a coarse powder of Fennel seeds, mustard seeds,fenugreek seeds and kalonji seeds.
Now take a pan, on high flame add oil and then add onion paste, fry till golden brown then add garlic ginger paste after that add chicken, now fry till chicken changes color (opaque) for about 5 to 7 minutes.
Now add salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, beaten yogurt , tomato paste, mustard seeds, fennel seeds, kalonji seeds, fenugreek seeds coarse powder and sauté till fat separates.
Finally add green chilies stuffed with chat masala and leave it on dum on very low flame for 5 to 7 minutes and its done.

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