Chicken Rezala

Festive season is on. We are all set and ready with our plans and attire and makeup kit... And where there is durgapuja and bongs ; two things are must; adda and bhuribhoj.
So its time for some yummilicious recipes to try out and enjoy with our family. Chicken Rezala is one among them, its a mughal cuisine. It can be paired with paratha or smoking hot rice. But I bet you will try it again and again.

Preparation time 1hr (with marination) Cooking time 1 hr

Ingredients

500 gm chicken pcs,
250 gm hung Curd,
4 tbsp Onion paste
1 big Onion (cut into thick rings),
2 tbsp Ginger paste,
3 tbsp Garlic paste,
5-6 Green Chillies,
1 tsp garam masala powder,
1 tbsp Poppy seeds, 9-10 Cashew nuts,
3 tbsp Ghee,
1 tbsp white oil,
3 tbsp Sugar,
Salt (according to taste) ,
4 pcs each Cardamon and cloves,
2 pcs cinnamon,
8-9 Black Pepper corns,
3 pcs Dry red chili.

Instructions

Marinate chicken with hung curd, salt, 2 tbsp onion paste, 1 tbsp ginger, 1 tbsp garlic paste. Keep aside for 1hr.
Soak poppy seeds and cashew nuts for 30 mins, make thick smooth paste.
Heat ghee in a deep bottom pan. Add whole garam masalas, let them splatter. Add onion, ginger and garlic paste saute them in a low flame. Keep stirring after every minute. Don't fry them brown.
After the pungent smell is gone, add the chicken pcs along with the marination. Add green chillies.
Mix all well. Cover with lid and let it cook in a low flame.
After a while add poppy seeds and cashew nuts paste. Mix and again cover. Do stir in between. This process will take 40 mins approx.
After the chicken is cooked, add garam masala powder.
On other side in a pan heat white oil, add whole dry red chillies and onion rings, sprinkle salt. Saute them and add in chicken.
Chicken Rezala is all ready to serve.

Happy Mahalaya.
Happy cooking..