Makhmali Chicken Bukhara

Name: Makhmali Chicken Bukhara
Yield: Serves 3 servin
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 300 gm chicken; 1 onion chopped; 2 tbsp tomato puree; 1 tsp ginger paste; 1 tsp garlic paste; 1 tsp raisins paste; 4 seedless dates paste; 2 dates chopped; 1 tbsp fresh cream or malai; 3 tbsp oil; 1 tsp ghee; 1 tsp fennel seed paste; 1 tbsp tandoori masala; 1/4 th tsp turmeric; 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder; 4 cashewnuts and poppy seed paste; 1 tbsp curd; To taste salt; 1 tbsp kasoori methi; 4 cloves; 1 small stick cinnamon; 3 green cardamoms; 1 tsp coriander chopped; 2 slit green chillies; 3 drops kewra essence; 1 pinch orange red food colour; 1/2 cup water approximately

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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This is a spicy and flavourful chicken curry.Adding kasoori methi or dry fenugreek leaves,fennel seeds and kewra makes it aromatic.Cashewnuts and cream gives a silky texture and raisins and dates paste lends a lightly sweet sour taste to this chicken recipe.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Ingredients

Serves 3 servin

300 gmchicken
1onion chopped
2 tbsptomato puree
1 tspginger paste
1 tspgarlic paste
1 tspraisins paste
4seedless dates paste
2dates chopped
1 tbspfresh cream or malai
3 tbspoil
1 tspghee
1 tspfennel seed paste
1 tbsptandoori masala
1/4th tsp turmeric
1 tspkashmiri red chilli powder
4cashewnuts and poppy seed paste
1 tbspcurd
To tastesalt
1 tbspkasoori methi
4cloves
1small stick cinnamon
3green cardamoms
1 tspcoriander chopped
2slit green chillies
3 dropskewra essence
1 pinchorange red food colour
1/2 cupwater approximately

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Steps

1

Marinate chicken with little salt and curd for an hour.Heat oil and fry the chicken.Set aside and sprinkle half crushed whole garam masala.Add chopped onion and fry.Meanwhile soak raisins and dates.Make a paste of it alongwith cashewnuts,fennel seeds and 1 tsp poppy seed.Add tomato puree and fresh cream to the ground paste and mix well.Mix this ground paste to the frying onion.
2

Add the marinated chicken,salt,food colour, turmeric and red chilli powder.Toss all and add 1 cup water.Add crushed kasoori methi and few chopped dates.Add 1 tsp ghee and boil till chicken is done and the texture is silky.Sprinkle chopped coriander and 2 slit green chillies.Serve with mitha pulao, jeera rice or paratha.