Mughlai Chicken Recipe
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
25 mins
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
Servings: 4
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
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Cut Chicken pieces into medium size, clean and put them in a mixing bowl.
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Sprinkle turmeric powder, salt, ginger-garlic paste, curd and black pepper powder.
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Mix all ingredients and marinate for 30 to 60 minutes at room temperature.
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Meanwhile, slice onions into thin wafers and fry in ghee till they turn crisp and golden brown.
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In a mixer grinder put above onions, almonds and cashew. Make a soft paste of them by adding little water.
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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.
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Add marinated chicken and sprinkle red chilli powder, jeera powder and coriander powder.
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Mix all ingredients and cook for 10 minutes till oil gets separated.
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Add almond-cashew paste and add little water to get soft gravy.
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Cook for 10-15 minutes on medium flame with lid covered.
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Once the gravy thickens just to give a mild spice taste we add 1-2 No. green chilly.
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Serve Moghlai Chicken Recipe topped with fresh cream and coriander leaves.