Chicken Hariyali

Hello again, today am putting back to back chicken recipes (for someone very special to me).  This is a gravy recipe as against the starter that I put up earlier.  This recipe is an easy one and also something that can be made in a jiffy as one usually has all these ingredients at home.  Just get the chicken and get started, what say!! 

SERVES: 2-3

PREPARATION TIME: 15 MINS

COOKING TIME: 30 MINS

INGREDIENTS:

Chicken	½ kg	Cinnamon	1 inch
Onion medium sized	4	Green cardamom	2 nos
Mint leaves (pudina)	½ a bunch	Ginger	1 inch
Coriander leaves	½ a bunch	Garlic	2-3 nos
Green chillies	3 nos	Stone flower(dagadphool)	2 nos
Cloves	2-3	Turmeric powder	¼ tsp
Bay leaf (tej patta)	1	Lemon juice	1 tbsp
Oil	2 tbsp	Salt	As per preference

METHOD:

1.      Clean the chicken and boil it in one cup water.

2.      Put a tablespoon oil in kadai (wok), heat the oil. Put tej patta, cloves, cinnamon, green cardamom, sliced onion, garlic and ginger and stir well till the colour becomes golden brown.

3.      Add stone-flower. Leave it to cool.

Method to make Hariyali Gravy:

Put green coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chillies and turmeric powder in mixer and grind to fine paste.

1.       Add the above sautéed mixture to the ground green masala and grind again.

2.      Put 1 table spoon oil in frying pan and add above Hariyali Gravy and stir it for 5 mins, on  medium flame.

3.      Add boiled chicken and stir for 2 mins.

4.      Add chicken stock and let it simmer for 10 mins.  This should be done on low flame.

5.      Add a dash of lemon juice, and topped with fresh cream and coriander leaves. Top of Form

6.      SERVE IT HOT WITH ROTI OR RICE

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