Kashmiri Chicken Recipe

by Swapna

Kashmiri Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1-Chicken cut into pieces - 1kg
• 2-Kashimiri chillies/ Piriyan mulaku -15
• 3-Mustard seeds – 1 ½ tsp
• 4-Cumin seeds / Jeerakom – 1tsp
• 5-Black pepper powder - ¾ tsp
• 6-Cinnamon sticks / Karuva patta – 1”x6 pieces
• 7- Cloves / Grambu - 5
• 8-Ginger – 1” piece, grind to a paste
• 9- Garlic – 35 small cloves, grind to a paste
• 10-Onion – 2 medium, sliced
• 11-Cashew nuts – 20 (soak in warm water for 10 mints and
• grind to a smooth paste)
• 12- Tomato – 3 medium, chopped
• 13-Oil –as needed
• 14-Raisins– 1 tbsp (grind to a smooth paste with little water)
• 15-Salt to taste
• 16- Turmeric powder – ¾ tsp

Method:

Grind masalas 2 to 7 to a fine paste and keep aside.

Clean chicken pieces and marinate with salt and turmeric

powder for one hour. After 1 hour fry the chicken pieces in hot oil till light

brown and remove.

Add sliced onion to the same oil and fry till brown. Add ginger

and garlic paste and sauté till raw smell goes, then add cashew nut paste and mix

well.

Add ground masalas of ingredients 2 to 7 and sauté well

until the raw smell goes

Add fried chicken pieces, tomatoes, ground raisins, salt and enough water

and cook on medium heat until chicken is cooked and oil separates.

Serve hot with Indian flat breads or rice.