Recipe of Chicken Masala - How to Make Chicken Masala

Recipe of Chicken Masala - How to Make Chicken Masala

Chicken Masala is a very popular dish in northern India. Masala means condiments, so Chicken Masala Recipe is a preparation that is prepared by using different condiments, though only a few varieties of these are required. The Recipe for Chicken Masala finally produces a dish that has a brilliant taste and can be prepared with minimum difficulty.

The Recipe of Chicken Masala can be grossly divided into 2 types. These are - Recipe of Chicken masala gravy variety and Recipe of Chicken masala dry variety. However, as the Recipe for Chicken masala gravy variety is more commonly prepared in India, so here we will be describing - how to make Chicken masala gravy in your home. The Recipe of Chicken masala gravy variety can be again of quite a few different types, the method used here is known as Chicken Salana preparation.

Our method of how to make Chicken Masala at home, discussed here can be easily prepared even by people who are beginners to Indian cooking and the ingredients used in the Recipe of Chicken Masala can be easily obtained from your neighborhood markets.

Ingredients Used in Recipe for Chicken Masala

1. Chicken pieces – ½ Kilogram
2. Ginger – ½ inch long piece (finely grated)
3. Garlic – 8 to 10 big cloves (grated finely)
4. Black Salt – 1/4^th teaspoon or as per taste
5. Sugar – 2 teaspoons
6. Tomato – 1 of large size
7. Kashmiri Chilli Powder – 1/4^th teaspoon
8. Good quality Garam masala powder – ½ teaspoon
9. Raw Clove pieces – 5 to 6 in number
10. Raw green Cardamom – 4 in number
11. Cinnamon – 1-inch long stick
12. Whole Black Pepper – 7 to 8 in number
13. Onion – Of 2 large size
14. Turmeric powder – 1/4^th teaspoon
15. Fennel powder – 1 teaspoon
16. Coriander Powder – 3/4^th teaspoon
17. Coriander leaves – 2 tablespoons (finely chopped)
18. Milk – ½ cup
19. Mustard Oil – 3 tablespoons
20. Water – 1 cup
21. Bay Leaves – 2 in number

Ingredients used in Recipe of Chicken Masala

How to Make Chicken Masala at Home – The Procedure

• Wash the chicken pieces thoroughly under tap water and then store them in a clean bowl. Carefully drain out the extra water from the Chicken pieces. Then add 1 tablespoon oil  (of the total 3 tablespoons taken for preparation) followed by salt, turmeric powder, Kashmiri Chili powder, finely grated garlic & ginger (in amounts as described in ingredients)  to the Chicken.
• Finely chop 1 onion and mix the Onion pieces with Chicken. Mix all the components mentioned earlier uniformly with the Chicken and then cover the bowl with a lid and keep it aside for at least 1 hour for marination.

Marination of the Chicken being done as described in Recipe for Chicken Masala

• Meanwhile, put the Tomato in a mixer – grinder and grind it till it becomes a puree-like mass and then keep it aside.

Tomato puree used in Recipe for Chicken Masala

• Finely chop another Onion (the leftover one) and keep it aside.
• Put 1 tablespoon oil in a Karahi and transfer it to a low medium flame burner. Spread the oil on the entire surface of Karahi and allow the Karahi to warm properly. Then transfer the finely chopped Onion pieces to the Karahi and sauté it constantly with a spatula, till it becomes brown. Then switch off the oven and take out the Karahi with the fried Onion pieces & later transfer the fried Onion pieces into a small plate and keep it aside for use later on.

Fried Onion pieces used in Recipe of Chicken Masala

• Now take raw clove pieces, green Cardamom pieces, Cinnamon, and Black pepper (in amounts as described in ingredients) in a pestle and break them into coarse pieces and keep them aside.

Coarsely grinded condiments mixture prepared in Recipe of Chicken masala gravy

• After 1 hour when the marination of Chicken is completed, put a non-stick Karahi on a medium flame burner. Put the remaining one tablespoon of oil in it and allow it to get warm. Then add crushed clove, Green Cardamom, Cinnamon, Black Pepper mixture (created earlier by grinding in a pestle) into the oil along with Bay leaves.
• As soon as a nice aroma starts to come out, then at once add the marinated Chicken to the contents and keep on stirring constantly. When water starts to come out of the Chicken then add Coriander Powder, Fennel Powder, Sugar to the Chicken and stir it so that the preparation mixes uniformly with the Chicken.
• Add Tomato puree (made earlier in the mixture – grinder), fried brown Onion pieces, Garam Masala Powder into the Chicken preparation and mix everything nicely and cover the Karahi with a lid and cook it in a low flame.

Showing How to make Chicken Masala at home

 

• Keep on checking the Chicken preparation from time to time, so that when it gets dried up, then stir the preparation again and add water along with milk (in a mixture form) to the preparation and mix the contents uniformly.

Water & Milk mixture being added to the preparation as described in Recipe of Chicken Masala

• Cover the lid of the Karahi and allow the contents to cook till the Chicken mass becomes soft.
• If the Chicken preparation is not adequately softened, then transfer the Chicken preparation to a cooker and boil it for 8 to 10 minutes, by adding extra water, if required.
• Later open the lid of the Karahi/cooker to check the contents for salt & sugar taste, if required then add these according to need and transfer the Chicken preparation to a serving bowl.
• Spread chopped Coriander leaves on the preparation (which should have adequate gravy content) for garnishing. This brings us to the end of the Recipe for Chicken Masala, as the preparation is now ready for serving to your friends or family members.

Final Dish Prepared by using Recipe of Chicken Masala