Name: Chicken Handi Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: Chicken – 500 gms.; Oil – 4 tbsp.; Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbsp.; Ghee – 1 tbsp.; Jeera/ Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp.; Onions – 1 bowl; Tomatoes – 1 cup; Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.; Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp.; Salt – 1 ½ tbsp.; Coriander powder – 1 tbsp.; Jeera/ cumin powder – ¼ tbsp.; Curd – 2 tbsp.; Water – 1 cup; Kasuri methi – 2 tbsp.; Black pepper powder – ¼ tbsp.; Garam masala powder – ½ tbsp.; Fresh cream – 2 tbsp.; Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.; Green chillies – 1 No.

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Chicken Handi Recipe is one of the traditional recipes where the whole recipe is made in an earthen clay pot (handi) by adding all ingredients and cooked on either firewood or a stove. Learn how to make Handi chicken recipe with detailed image instructions along with tips and a video.

In villages, people love to cook over clay pots using dry wood and with cow dung cakes. Most of the times people do not add all spices mentioned in our recipe but the recipe tastes great. Many of them say that this recipe absorbs a portion of smoke and elevates its falvour.

People living in cities may not have clay pots so for them our recipe suits well. To give an approximate flavour of a clay pot, we have cooked chicken by adding a little oil and ginger garlic paste for about 10 minutes and then adding to the spice mix.

Handi Chicken Recipe can be served either with plain rice or with Indian bread as it’s cooked till it turns soft and has yummy gravy. Trust me when you make this recipe for your family on an earthen pot they will love it.

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Tips to make the perfect Chicken Handi Recipe:

If you are making this recipe in a clay pot, flavor of this recipe enhances the recipe, or else try to roast chicken with ginger garlic paste.
Add a generous quantity of onions to give it a mild sweet texture.
Adding curd will give a mild sour taste and adding fresh cream will improve the taste as well as the texture of the recipe.
Try not to skip kasuri methi as it will not only give a nice aroma but enhance the flavor of the recipe.

Chicken Handi Recipe

ChickenHandi Recipe is one of the traditional recipes where the whole recipe is made in an earthen clay pot (handi) by adding all ingredients and cooked on either firewood or a stove.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Chicken Handi Recipe

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 4

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

Chicken – 500 gms.
Oil – 4 tbsp.
Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbsp.
Ghee – 1 tbsp.
Jeera/ Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp.
Onions – 1 bowl
Tomatoes – 1 cup
Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.
Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp.
Salt – 1 ½ tbsp.
Coriander powder – 1 tbsp.
Jeera/ cumin powder – ¼ tbsp.
Curd – 2 tbsp.
Water – 1 cup
Kasuri methi – 2 tbsp.
Black pepper powder – ¼ tbsp.
Garam masala powder – ½ tbsp.
Fresh cream – 2 tbsp.
Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.
Green chillies – 1 No.

Instructions

In a pan put 2-3 tbsp. oil and fry ginger garlic paste. Add chicken and cook for 10 minutes and transfer to another bowl.
Add a little more oil and a spoon of ghee in the same pan and fry cumin seeds and onions.
Put tomatoes and cook for a while, once they turn soft, sprinkle red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, jeera powder and salt.
Mix all spices and add chicken pieces, close the lid and cook for 5 minutes till it absorbs flavours of spices.
Add curd and cook for two more minutes with lid covered. Again add water and cook for 2 more minutes until chicken turns soft.
Sprinkle garam masala powder, black pepper and kasuri methi. Mix.
Add fresh cream and mix till the texture of the recipe changes.
Garnish Chicken Handi recipe with coriander leaves and top with green chillies.

Recipe Video

How to make Chicken Handi Recipe:

1. Heat 2-3 tbsp. oil in a pan and add ginger garlic paste. Fry for a second till it’s raw flavor is cooked, add chicken pieces and fry for 10 minutes.