Chicken With Potato And Boiled Egg Currry

Ingredients:

Whole Chicken - 1 cleaned, removed fat and cut into pieces.

Onion Medium size - 2,

Ginger paste - 1 1/2 tablespoons

Garlic paste - 2 tablespoons

Green Chili paste - 2 tablespoons

Red chili powder - 1/2 tablespoon

Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon

Coriander powder - 2 teaspoons

Nutmeg powder 1/4 teaspoon

 mace powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Cinnamon powder - 1 pinch

Bay leaf - 1

Cardamom pods - 4/5

Cloves - 5/6

Cinnamon stick - 1

Whole milk yogurt - 1 cup

Egg - 4 hard boiled

Potato - 2 large cut into big pieces

Mustard oil - 5 tablespoons

Ghee - 2 tablespoons

Method:

1.Take the boiled eggs and potatoes and marinate them with little salt and turmeric and keep them aside for 10 minutes. Now Heat oil in a large pan and fry the eggs and potatoes and keep them on a paper towel.

2.Now finely chop 1 medium size onion and make a paste of the other one and set aside. Now take half of the chopped onion and fry them till light brown and put on a paper towel and let it cool. When the fried onion will be cold enough make a paste of the onion along with 2 tablespoons of yogurt.

3.Now marinate the chicken with salt, turmeric ,red chili, green chili paste, yogurt, ginger and garlic paste, coriander powder, raw onion paste and little oil and keep aside for 2-3 hours.

4.After 2-3 hours heat oil and add 1 tablespoon of ghee. Now add the whole garam masala like cinnamon, cloves, cardamom pods and bay leaf and fry till the fragrance comes from them.

5.Now add the half of the chopped onion into the pan and some salt and fry till light brown. Now add the marinated chicken pieces and the brown onion and yogurt paste into it and fry for 5-10 minutes. Now cover the pan and simmer the oven to lower medium heat for 20 minutes.

6.After 20 minutes open the lid and add the fried potatoes and eggs and cover the pan again for another 20 minutes. After 20 minutes open the lid and check if the chicken is cooked enough or not. If the chicken and the potatoes are cooked then higher the oven and boil the gravy on high flame for 10 minutes.

7.Now pour the Chicken Curry in a large serving bowl and sprinkle nutmeg powder, mace powder and cinnamon powder and some ghee on the top of the curry and serve with steamed rice or polao or chapati or parata.