Pakistani Cuisine Hyderabadi

 

My blogger friend, Maryam, posted the recipe of Murgh Quorma in Hyderabadi style the other day. Only reading through the recipe sounded so yummy that I had to make it. So what other day to do so when 14th August was around the corner.

It was yummylicious ... a bit different from the way I cook chicken. But very yummy indeed. I don't indulge in Garam Masala (mixture of spices) during cooking.

Ingredients: 

Whole Chicken Pieces - 800 gms
Onions (cut in slices)- 7-8 small
Yogurt - 1 1/2 cup (or) 350 gms
Cocoa Powder (optional) - 1 tbs (was in original recipe but I didnt use it)
Chilli Powder - 3 tsps
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tbs
Salt - 1 1/2 tsps
Coconut Milk - 1 tbs (was in original recipe but I didnt use it)
Garam Masala - 1 tbs
Lemon Juice - 3 tbs
Water - 2 cups
Kassori meethi - 2 tbs
Oil - 6 tbs

Procedure: 

In a pan, add few oil drops, fry onions at medium heat. Add ginger-garlic paste. Add few Tbspoons of water. Saute' them. After that blend them well to a smooth mixture. Add 2 Tbspoons of oil, beat yogurt with all spices added to it and add to the mixture in pan. Let it simmer on slow heat.

Take another pan with oil, add chicken pieces with salt and chilli powder. Add turmeric powder + lemon juice too. Let it cook, till water evaporates :)

Now add this chicken to the onion-yogurt mixture and let it simmer for few minutes. Add some water as per your consistency level :). Bring it to a boil and garnish it with some kasooori methi. I put some when it was simmering too for added flavour. And yeah some Julian ginger. Yummmm!