How to Cook Tasty Chicken Masala

Chicken Masala.

You can have Chicken Masala using 17 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Masala

1. You need 3-4 of onions.
2. You need 3-4 of tomatoes.
3. Prepare 1/2 tsp of coriander seeds.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of fennel seeds.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of peppercorn.
6. It's 1/2 of cinnamon stick.
7. Prepare 3-4 of Cardamoms.
8. Prepare 1 of bayleaf.
9. It's 1 tsp of Garam masala.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of Coriander powder.
11. You need 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
12. It's 10-15 of cashews.
13. Prepare 1 kg of chicken.
14. Prepare As needed of Chopped coriander leaves (garnish).
15. Prepare As needed of Cream.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of Ginger garlic paste.
17. You need To taste of Salt.

Chicken Masala step by step

1. Marinate the chicken with Ginger garlic paste, salt, red chilli powder. Keep it aside for an hour.
2. Chop the onions into slices and chop the tomatoes too..
3. Heat pan, dry roast coriander seeds,fennel seeds and peppercorn. Turn off the flame. Let it cool and make a powder out of this..
4. Heat oil in a vessel. Put whole garam masalas and then put the chopped onions in this, saute till onions become translucent..
5. Put the remaining ginger garlic paste in the vessel and saute till the raw smell goes away. Once it is sauteed put the chopped tomatoes. Saute for a while till the oil separates and tomatoes get mushy..
6. Make a paste out of the cashews..
7. Put the earlier powdered masala, garam masala, coriander powder and red chilli powder and mix well..
8. In a separate pan, sear the chicken in a pan, once done put it in the vessel containing onion tomato masala and mix well..
9. Put the cashews paste and some water and let it cook for 10 mins with the lid on the vessel..
10. Check taste, Put salt as required. At this stage put the cream in and mix. Heat for few more mins till chicken is cooked..
11. Garnish with coriander leaves and mix well. Chicken masala is ready (serve along with chapati/naan).