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Chicken Handi Recipe
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Chicken Handi Recipe
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 

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
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
  1. 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.
  2. Add a little more oil and a spoon of ghee in the same pan and fry cumin seeds and onions.
  3. Put tomatoes and cook for a while, once they turn soft, sprinkle red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, jeera powder and salt.
  4. Mix all spices and add chicken pieces, close the lid and cook for 5 minutes till it absorbs flavours of spices.
  5. Add curd and cook for two more minutes with lid covered. Again add water and cook for 2 more minutes until chicken turns soft.
  6. Sprinkle garam masala powder, black pepper and kasuri methi. Mix.
  7. Add fresh cream and mix till the texture of the recipe changes.
  8. Garnish Chicken Handi recipe with coriander leaves and top with green chillies.

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