ACHARI CHICKEN

Ingredients

Chicken - 1 (500 gms), cut into small or medium pieces
Onions - 3 sliced fine
Tomatoes - 2 chopped fine
Kalonji - 1 tsp (Onion or Nigella seeds)
Methi dana - 1/2 tsp (Fenugreek seeds)
Whole Zeera - 1 tsp (Cumin Seeds)
Saunf - 1 tsp (Fennel seeds)
Bhuna Zeera Powder - 1 tsp (Roasted Cumin Powder)
Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tbsp
Yogurt (curd) - 3 tbsp/thick
Haldi - 1/2 tsp (Turmeric Powder)
Green chilies - 2-3/ to taste
Lemon Juice - of 1/2 lemon
Yogurt (curd) - 3 tbsp/thick
Fresh Coriander (Hara Dhania) to garnish
  Cut ginger into long for garnishing
  Cut Long the long chillies for garnishing
  Salt to taste
  1 tsp of mustard seeds.

Procedure

1) Heat oil in a heavy based pan on medium heat. Add onions,little salt and fry (stirring occasionally)until golden brown.Add ginger garlic paste and saute until the raw smell is gone.Now add tomatoes and saute until they are well soft and till the oil separates.
2) Add in the chicken pieces, red chilli powder and turmeric powder. Mix and cover pot and let it cook on low heat until the chicken is half done.Now add beaten yogurt to the half cooked chicken and let it cook for 5 minutes.
3) Separately put a frying pan on stove on medium heat and roast the mustard seeds, cumin seeds, Methi seeds,jeera seeds,fennel seeds and kalonji seeds(nigella seeds) in a dry pan. (Do not use oil) Roast these seeds until the cumin turns brown.
4) Take 2 teaspoons of this roasted mixture and set it aside.Take 1 tsp of oil and saute for a minute and Keep aside .This is used for tempering. Grind the rest of it in a grinder to a fine powder. Make it into a thick paste by adding the lemon juice.
5) Add the paste to the chicken and further cook the chicken until it is well done.
6) Add the tempering ingradients to the chicken.Garnish with cut ginger pieces,coriander leaves,cut pieces of long chillies.

Note: I cooked this dish yesterday night for the first time and enjoyed to the maximum..Its got very special strong pickel kind of taste to it..You will not be dissappointed at all.

 

Courtesy : Akkisetti Shyam