Methi Chicken

Ingredients:

1. Chicken - 1 kg
2. Onions - 4  finely sliced
3. Tomatoes - 2  pureed
4. Methi leaves - 1 cup
5. Curd - 4 tbsp
6. Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsp
7. Coriander leaves - handful or 1 cup
8. Green chilli - 1 slit
9. Haldi powder - 2 tsp
10. Red chilli pd - 2 tsp
11. Coriander powder - 2 tsp
12. Garam masala - 2 tsp
13. Bay leaf - 1
14. Salt - as per taste
15. Sugar - a pinch
16. Oil - 5 tbsp
17. Water - 1/2 cup approx

Method:

• Clean and wash chicken pieces.
• Make thick paste of 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste and coriander leaves by adding very little water.
• Marinate chicken with ginger garlic coriander paste,1 tsp haldi pd,1 tsp chilli pd and salt and keep aside for 1-2 hrs.
• Take cleaned and washed methi leaves in a bowl,add little water, salt and pinch of sugar to it and keep for 15 mins and squeeze out all water.
• In a kadai, heat around 3 tbsp oil and fry finely sliced onion till crispy brown in colour. Take it in a bowl and mix 4 tbsp curd to it. Mix nicely to form a paste and keep aside.
• In the same oil, add methi leaves, fry till crispy, remove and keep aside.
• Heat the remaining oil, add bay leaf, 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste, green chilli.
• Add tomato puree and fry for 3-4 mins.
• Add onion curd paste and fry for few seconds.
• Add spice powders 1 tsp haldi pd, 1 tsp chilli pd, coriander pd, garam masala. Saute for 2-3 min.
• Add marinated chicken, mix well cover with a lid and allow it to cook until chicken is 3/4th done.
• Add little salt if required ( while marinating chicken salt is added).
• You can add little water.( as per the consistency of gravy required).
• Now add fried methi leaves and cook till chicken turns soft.
• Serve with Roti, Rice or Paratha.