MURGH MASALA.

 My husband loves chicken alot, and I love to experiment with different tastes and flavours. so I prepared this curry for him.  I found this reciepe in internet

Ingredients

1. ·         1 whole chicken -cut in to 8 pieces and washed well
2. ·         1 cup yoghurt
3. ·         2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
4. ·         200 gms onions - pasted
5. ·         200 gms onions- chopped fine and deep-fried in 1/2 cup refined oil
6. ·         1 cinnamon stick,2 green cardamoms,2 cloves-powdered
7. ·         1 tsp fresh pepper powder
8. ·         2 tsp chilli powder
9. ·         1  tsp cumin powder
10. ·         1 tsp coriander powder
11. ·         1/4 tsp turmeric powder
12. ·         1/2 tsp amchur powder
13. ·         3 red chillies-whole
14. ·         2 tsp salt
15. ·         1 1/2 tsp kewra essence (This is an extract that's distilled from the pandanus flowers and is used to provide flavors for meat, drinks, and desserts.)
16. ·         2 tbsp ghee and 1 tbsp refined oil

Directions:

1.     Wash the chicken pieces with 1 tsp salt and mix all the ingredients except deep-fried onions and kewra essence.Marinate this for 30 mins.

2.     Heat ghee and oil in a sauce pan and add deep-fried onions and kewra essence and the marinated chicken pieces along with the marinade.Wash the remaining marinade left over- 1/4 cup water and add it to the chicken.Add the ginger-garlic paste washed water- 1/2 cup.

3.     Cover and cook for 10 mins, then turn the chicken pieces and cover and cook till tender on medium flame.

    Serve this Murgh Masala hot with rotis, biryani or rice.