What do we don first light a flame and put a pan on heat, pour some oil in this pan then goes to add cumin seeds, bay leaf and whole spices. Once you get nice aroma of whole spices then add chopped onion to this.

Now we have to brown the onions
Add gineger garlic paste to this and cooked it so that raw flavour of it get remove and you get a nice cooked flavour,

Now add tomato cooked untill they are soft and pulpy
Now add spices ground coriander powder, red chilli powder, salt, turmeric and cooked it.add cashew nut melon seed paste.

Cook this pase till it leaves the side which means oil oozes out, now add some cooked chikken tikka pieces..if you want you can pour some water due to water all masala will mix and give nice effect to Masala
Now it's ready for serve