Chicken Lajawab Recipe
Indian households always smell of great food and the sole credit goes to the masalas that are there in the Indian cuisine. With the help of the right spices, you can create anything and everything. Whether it is a simple potato dish or a complicated chicken dish like this one, if you have your spice-box, you are half-way on the ladder to cooking yourself a delicious meal.
Chicken Lajawab Recipe
Ingredients:
Recipe :
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Step 1 Clean and marinate the chicken
Wash the chicken nicely and pat dry the meat. Add it to a bowl and marinate it by adding ginger garlic paste, 1/2 tsp cumin powder, yoghurt, ½ tsp turmeric powder, ½ tsp Kashmiri chilli, ½ tsp salt and 1 tbsp besan. Let this sit for 15 minutes and then cook these pieces in hot oil. Take them out of the pan and keep aside.
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Step 2 Prepare the curry
In 2 tbsp of oil, add some mustard seeds and let them splutter. Once they calm down, add the cumin seeds, hing, ginger-garlic paste and finely chopped onions. Cook this until the onions start to turn translucent. Add the spices at this point and quickly add chopped tomatoes. Cook this until the tomatoes are soft and the oil starts coming to the surface.
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Step 3 Add the chicken, simmer and serve!
At this point, add the cooked chicken pieces, and coat them well in the mixture. Add 1 cup of water and cover. Let this cook for about 10 minutes or until the oil comes to the surface. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve with rice or chapati.
