Chicken Lahsooni | Lahsuni Murg | Garlic flavoured spicy chicken | Lasooni Murg
Chicken Lahsooni | Lahsuni Murg | Garlic flavoured spicy chicken | Lasooni Murg is a delicious chicken curry where boiled chicken cubes are cooked in a yogurt based garlic flavored gravy along with some basic spices.
Servings 2
Ingredients
- Fried onions 1/2 cup
- Melon seeds 1 tsp
- Poppy seeds 1 tsp
- Almonds 6
- Cashew nuts 6
- Oil 3 tsp
- Bay leaf 1
- Cinnamon sticks 1
- Cardamom 1 piece
- Cloves 3
- Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
- Chili powder 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Ginger 1/2 inch
- Garlic paste 2 tsp
- Green chili 1
- Tomato puree 1+1/2 tsp
- Curd 3 tablespoons
- Chicken 200 grams
- Kasuri methi 1 tbsp
- Fresh coriander leaves to garnish
For tadka/tempering
- Oil 1 tsp
- Garlic cloves 6
Instructions
- Boil the chicken pieces with salt . Reserve the water and keep aside.
- Boil poppy seeds, cashew nuts, almonds, melon seeds into the hot water for around 30 minutes. Keep aside to cool.
- Once it cool down grind it in the blender to make a fine paste. To this add fried onions and grind again.
- After that, heat oil in a pan add whole garam masala like cloves, cardamom, bay leaves and cinnamon stick.
- Saute well and add ginger garlic paste and turmeric powder. Saute this till raw flavor is gone.
- Next add tomato puree, one green chilly and cook. Once the tomamto puree is cooked well
- then add prepared paste of nuts & onion.
- Add basic spices like coriander powder, chili powder, salt, add little water and keep stirring constantly.
- At this time add curd and keep the flame on low. Now add boiled chicken pieces, cover with lid let it cook for 15 to 20 minutes in a slow flame.
- In the last add crushed kasuri methi.
For tadka/tempering
- Heat oil in a pan. When the oil is hot, add garlic and fry till they turn light brown.
- Pour the tadka over the chicken curry. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.