Chicken Curry

This in the first non-veg recipe on my blog.Some of my friends were waiting for this for a long time.Generally I make it on weekends but every time I forgot to take its picture.So finally I managed it and now its here.

Ingredients

Chicken drumsticks 5-6 pieces

Onion 3 medium

Garlic 3-4

Ginger 1 inch

Tomato 1-2

Lemon juice 2 tbsp

Chicken masala 1 tbsp

Turmeric pw 1/2 tsp

Red chili pw 1 tsp

Salt

Bay leaf/tej patta 1-2

Cloves/laung 3-4

Black peppercorns/kaali mirch 6-7

Cinnamon stick/dalchini 1 inch

ardamom pods/hari elaichi 2-3

Oil 4 tbsp

Method

1. Peel off skin from chicken drumsticks and wash thoroughly.Apply lemon juice and salt to these and keep them aside for 15 minutes.

2. Make a paste from 2 onions,ginger and garlic.Cut 1 onion lengthwise.

3. Heat oil in a pan and add all whole masalas.When they begin to crackle add onion pieces and fry till golden in colour.

4. Now add onion-ginger-garlic paste and fry for 3-4 minutes.

5. Add chopped tomatoes,salt and all masalas.Fry till the oil leaves the masalas.

6. Add drumsticks let it cook in this masala for 10-15 minutes on medium flame.Stir occasionally.

7. Add water to make sufficient gravy and cover it to cook till the chicken is done.

8. Enjoy it with naan or rice.

Note: In case you don't have chicken masala just use garam masala.