Name: Mughlai Chicken Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: Chicken – 500 gms.; Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.; Salt – 1 ½ tbsp.; Black pepper powder – ½ tbsp.; Ginger garlic paste – 1 ½ tbsp.; Curd – 1 cup; Almonds – 12 No.; Cashew – ¼ cup; Fried onions – 1 cup; Water – required; Oil – 3 tbsp.; Ghee – 1 tbsp.; Cinnamon sticks – 3 No.; Cloves – 7 No.; Green cardamoms – 2 No.; Cumin seeds/ jeera – ½ tbsp.; Black peppercorns – ½ tbsp.; Bay leaf – 1 No.; Coriander powder – 1 tbsp.; Cumin/ Jeera powder – ½ tbsp.; Red chili powder – 1 ½ tbsp.; Green chilli – 1 No.; Fresh cream – 2 tbsp.; Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.

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Mughlai Chicken Recipe is one of the royal dishes made on special occasions which has a creamy texture with mild spicy gravy. Learn how to make Mughlai chicken gravy recipes with our step by step image instructions along with tips and a video.

First chicken is marinated with a blend of spices so that chicken not only turns soft by absorbing the flavors of the spices. To give special flavors to this recipe, we have fried onions to golden brown in pure ghee.

Mouthwatering creamy gravy is made by adding almonds, cashews, and fried onions. Most of us think Mughlai chicken Recipe turns rich by added spices but the truth is that fried onions, dry fruits and ghee makes it rich either by looks or with taste.

Chicken is then cooked with a blend of oil and ghee by adding traditional spices. Dry fruit paste is then added and cooked to get creamy gravy. This recipe tastes great either with Indian bread (Naan, parathas, or roti) or with rice recipes (biryani or simple steam rice).

Contents

Tips to make a perfect Mughlai chicken recipe:

The key ingredient for making this recipe is adding ghee and fried onions.
During marinating chicken, we add a cup of sour curd which not only makes it soft but helps in absorbing spices.
To make creamy gravy if you do not have dry fruits we can even make a paste of poppy seeds.
Usually, we cook chicken half time without a lid and half time with a lid and cashew paste to get the perfect taste.

Mughlai Chicken Recipe

Mughlai Chicken Recipe is one of the royal dishes made on special occasions which has a creamy texture with mild spicy gravy.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Mughlai Chicken Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 4

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

Chicken – 500 gms.
Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.
Salt – 1 ½ tbsp.
Black pepper powder – ½ tbsp.
Ginger garlic paste – 1 ½ tbsp.
Curd – 1 cup
Almonds – 12 No.
Cashew – ¼ cup
Fried onions – 1 cup
Water – required
Oil – 3 tbsp.
Ghee – 1 tbsp.
Cinnamon sticks – 3 No.
Cloves – 7 No.
Green cardamoms – 2 No.
Cumin seeds/ jeera – ½ tbsp.
Black peppercorns – ½ tbsp.
Bay leaf – 1 No.
Coriander powder – 1 tbsp.
Cumin/ Jeera powder – ½ tbsp.
Red chili powder – 1 ½ tbsp.
Green chilli – 1 No.
Fresh cream – 2 tbsp.
Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.

Instructions

Cut Chicken pieces into medium size, clean and put them in a mixing bowl.
Sprinkle turmeric powder, salt, ginger-garlic paste, curd and black pepper powder.
Mix all ingredients and marinate for 30 to 60 minutes at room temperature.
Meanwhile, slice onions into thin wafers and fry in ghee till they turn crisp and golden brown.
In a mixer grinder put above onions, almonds and cashew. Make a soft paste of them by adding little water.
Add a little 2 tbsp. oil and 1 tbsp. ghee in 2:1 proportion and add cinnamon sticks, green cardamoms, black peppercorns, cloves, cumin seeds and a bay leaf.
Add marinated chicken and sprinkle red chilli powder, jeera powder and coriander powder.
Mix all ingredients and cook for 10 minutes till oil gets separated.
Add almond-cashew paste and add little water to get soft gravy.
Cook for 10-15 minutes on medium flame with lid covered.
Once the gravy thickens just to give a mild spice taste we add 1-2 No. green chilly.
Serve Moghlai Chicken Recipe topped with fresh cream and coriander leaves.