Take a pressure cooker or slow cooker and add oil in medium heat for 30 sec

Add bay leaves, cinnamon stick, cardamom, cloves in the cooker. let it sit for 30 seconds

split the chillies along its length and add it along with cumin seeds. let it fry for 45 seconds.

cut garlic into small chunks for 45 seconds

reduce the heat to half point between sim and medium heat and add onions and fry

keep stirring occasionally. add salt in 5 min and cook until oil starts oozing out of onions. could take 15-20 min. onion would look like a paste

add turmeric powder and ginger garlic paste. cook for a min

add the chillo powder and cook for 30 seconds

add tomato and cook until tomato becomes a paste n oil oozes out of the mixture again

add chicken cut into cubes into the mixture and cook for a min or two

add half cup water. cook for a min and close the lid

wait for three whistles if its a pressure cooker or for 30 min in the same low heat

curry is ready. could garnish it with some freshly chopped cilantro leaves

Note: Kashmiri chilli powder gives a lot of color. you can change the number of chillies and amount of chilli powder and salt as per taste.