Saoji Chicken Curry (Nagpur Chicken)

Saoji Chicken Curry is a very spicy and flavorful dish. This is a Maharashtrian style of chicken curry and is very famous dish in Nagpur.

 This goes very well with hot steamed rice/chapatti/roti/jeera rice/pulav/biryani/idli/dosa/uthappam…

Here is the recipe... Enjoy with your meal!!!

Ingredients

Chicken – ½ kg

Sorghum Flour/Jawar ka atta/ Kambu – 2 tsp

Coconut Powder – 2 tsp

Chopped Onions – 1 cup

Chopped Tomatoes – 1 cup

Turmeric – ½ tsp

Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp

Paprika Powder/Mace – ¼ tsp

Salt to taste

Cumin Seeds – ¼ tsp

Coconut Oil – 3 tsp

Chopped Coriander Leaves - few

(For Dry Roast)

Coriander Seeds – 1 tsp

Shahi Jeera/Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp

Fennel Seeds – ¼ tsp

Cardamom – 2

Cinnamon Sticks – 2

Cloves – 4

Pepper Corns – ½ tsp

Poppy Seeds – 1 tsp

Dry Red Chilli – 6

Method

Heat a pan, add all the ingredients which are under for dry roast and sauté it for few minutes, let it cool down.

Then add sorghum flour, paprika powder, coconut powder. And grind it as a coarse powder.

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, chopped onions and cook until it becomes mushy.

Now add chicken pieces, ginger garlic paste, and turmeric then sauté it well. Add masala powder and mix well.

Then add chopped tomatoes and close the lid and keep cook until the chicken pieces become soft.

Finally add the chopped coriander leaves and mix well. Once it done, then switch off the flame.