Sesame Chicken Gravy

It is a delicious dish for chicken lovers.  The juicy chicken gravy with sesame seeds which makes an extra ordinary taste to this dish.

This goes well with hot steamed rice, pulav, chapatti, naan, roti, dosa, idli…

Ingredients

Chicken – ½ kg

Chopped Onions – 1 ½ cups

Tomato Puree – 3 (big)

Chopped Green Chilli – 3

Sesame Seeds – 1 tsp

Turmeric Powder – ½ tp

Chilli Powder – 2 tsp

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder – 2 tsp

Pepper Powder – ½ tsp

Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp

Salt to taste

Butter – 2 tsp

Oil -2 tsp

For Paste

(Roast and Grind)

Grated Coconut – ½ cup

Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp

Fennel Seeds – ½ tsp

Garlic – 3 cloves

(To Temper)

Cinnamon stick – 1

Cardamom – 2

Bay Leaf – 1

Cloves – 2

Curry Leaves – few

Chopped Coriander Leaves - few

Method

In a pan, heat oil. Add the ingredients which are under for paste and saute it for few min and grind it as a paste.

Clean and wash the chicken pieces and keep it aside.  In a pan, heat butter. Add chicken pieces, ginger garlic paste and fry for 10 min.

Add salt, pepper powder, and red chilli powder. Mix well and cook for another 10 to 15 minutes on a medium flame.

Then take it out and keep the chicken pieces in a separate plate.

Heat oil in a kadai, add chopped onions and fry till it becomes mushy. Now add tomato puree, turmeric powder, salt, chilli powder, coriander powder and mix well.

Cook for another 10 minutes and then add chicken pieces. Once it done, then add coconut paste in it.

Let it be for another 3 minutes and switched off the flame.

In a pan, heat oil. Add the tempering ingredients which are under for “to temper” and add this into gravy. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.