# Chicken Curry Indian Style

Indian Style Chicken Curry is a dish with chicken with bones cooked in a silky smooth spiced gravy.

- Servings: 7 servings
- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2.2 lb chicken on bones
- 2 large potatoes
- 1 very large onion
- 2 inch length ginger
- 10 large garlic cloves
- 1 large tomato
- 2 green chillies
- 2 dry bay leaf
- 1 inch length cinnamon stick
- 6 green cardamoms
- 4 cloves
- 0.25 cup plain unflavored yogurt
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 heaped teaspoons Kashmiri red chilli powder
- 1 tablespoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 0.25 teaspoon ground mace
- 0.25 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup hot water
- 0.25 cup oil

## Instructions

1. Make a paste with quarter of the onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies and tomato.
2. Stir plain unflavored yogurt
3. Add mustard oil into the pot on high heat.
4. Add bay leaf, cardamoms, cinnamon stick, and cloves.
5. Add the sliced onions, and sprinkle with salt
6. Once onions edges turn brown lower the heat to medium low and stir continuously
7. Add turmeric powder and Kashmiri red chilli powder then stir for two to three seconds.
8. Add ginger garlic tomato paste and stir.
9. Add chicken and stir on high heat until liquid that comes out from the chicken dries up.
10. Add salt, ground coriander, garam masala powder, and yogurt.
11. Stir continuously to prevent yogurt from separating, then let simmer on medium low heat.
12. Add potatoes and stir everything together
13. Add cup of hot water
14. Cover and cook on a very low heat for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally
15. Stir and add ground mace and nutmeg

## Tips

- Make your own ginger-garlic paste with onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies and tomato for a smooth gravy.
- Stir yogurt before adding to the pan to avoid curdling.
- Strain the excess water off the chicken after washing it.
- Remember that cooking the onions too brown will change the color of the gravy.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/XmQ8mZFqczw?si=ALNzl-pd7-IeveTo
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/e5919659-a9d1-47a7-80ce-d172bc19ce9b
- Extracted: 2025-05-07

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