CHICKEN FRY (cooked and fried in Onion and Kaju paste)

Chicken	1 kg (cut into medium small pieces)
Onions	250 g (chopped and split into 2 equal portions)
Green chillies	6-8
Ginger Garlic paste	2 tbsp
Cashews	2 tbsp
Pepper powder	1/2 tsp (optional)
Red chilly powder	2 tsp to tbsp (adjust according to taste)
Turmeric	1/2 tsp
Tomato sauce (Hot n’ Sweet)	1 tbsp
Ajinomoto (optional)	large pinch
Curd	1/2 cup
Lime juice	2tbsp
Salt	to taste
Oil	1/4 cup

• Add salt and lime juice to washed chicken and mix well. Cover and marinate it for 10minutes.
• Blend cashews into powder. Add 1/2 portion of onions to cashews and grind into paste without adding water. Add  paste to chicken. Mix  and allow to marinate for another 10-15 minutes

 

• Heat oil in a wide pan. Add onions and fry them. Add ginger garlic and green chillies paste and fry till ginger leaves its raw smell.
• Mix turmeric, chilly powder, tomato sauce, ajinomoto(optional), pepper powder (optional) and little salt (to taste).Fry for few movements. Add curd and cook till oil floats on gravy
• Add  marinated chicken and mix well. Cover and cook on medium flame till chicken is cooked.
• Keep stirring for every couple of minutes till gravy sticks to chicken
• Off flame and garnish with cilantro
• Serve with Rice and Sambar or  Naan or Roti.