Dahi-wali Chicken Curry

Description
Sometimes I like to come home and sit down to a nice fulfilling dinner. But most of the time I'm just too tired to drag myself into the kitchen to whip up something lavish. This made me experiment with traditional and not-so-traditional recipes, and I finally came up with my easy and yet delicious variations to these all time classics!

Here's one for a quite evening when you just want to sit down infront of the TV and enjoy a meal fit for a king!

Ingredients

 * 1 kg chicken cut into medium-sized pieces
 * ½ cup plain yoghurt
 * 1 cup chopped onions
 * 2 cups chopped tomatoes
 * 2-3 sliced green chilies
 * 1 tbsp chopped ginger
 * 1 tbsp chopped garlic
 * 1 tsp cumin seeds
 * Salt, to taste
 * ½ tsp red chili powder
 * ¼ tsp turmeric powder
 * 1 tsp coriander powder
 * ½ tsp garam masala
 * 1 ½ tbsp fresh chopped coriander leaves
 * 2 tbsp cooking oil

Directions
Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. When cumin seeds starts to sizzle, add ginger, garlic and green chilies and fry for a few seconds till fragrant.

Add onions and cook till they turn slightly brown. Add chili powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder, and fry for 1 minute.

Add tomatoes and cook till tomatoes start to soften and form the gravy base. Add yoghurt and cook for 2 minutes.

Add chicken and salt and cover cook for about 15-20 minutes on medium heat till chicken is tender.

Add chopped coriander leaves and sprinkle garam masala as garnish.

Recipe by Hooked on Heat
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