Tomato Chicken Recipe

This tomato chicken is the most popular recipe from Pakistani Cuisine. Its main ingredients are tomato and crushed spices which make it wonderful and different with other chicken curries. It has sour spicy taste due to tomato and yogurt but you may adjust the quantity of spices and yogurt according to your taste. This tomato chicken recipe takes 30-40 minutes to prepare and this quantity is best to serve for 8 persons.

Ingredients:

Pan Fried Chicken

1 kg chicken pieces
6-7 medium size tomato (cut into large pieces)
200 gm yogurt
1 tbsp redchili powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp crushed fenugreek seeds
1 tsp crushed coriander seeds
1 tsp crushed cumin
1 tsp crushed black pepper
1/2 tsp crushed carom
1 tsp crushed fennel seeds
5-6 large green chilies
Salt to taste
1 cup oil

Cooking Instructions:

1. In a deep frying pan, fry chicken pieces in oil on medium high flame for 10-12 minutes and add 1 tspn of salt in the chicken after 2 minutes. Fry until all the water of chicken would have been dried and become white in color.
2. Now drain out chicken pieces from the oil and in the same oil cook gravy for chicken by adding tomatoes, ginger garlic paste, salt, red chili powder and turmeric powder. Cover the pan and cook them together on medium heat for 8-10 minutes until all the tomato pieces become soft.
3. When oil starts to appear on the top of gravy add yogurt and fried chicken. Again cover the pan and cook on medium heat until chicken become tender, it would take 10-15 minutes and add water in between if gravy gets dry.
4. Now in take a small pan and add all the crushed spices and roast then together for 1-2 minutes until pleasant smell starts to come from the spices. Don't roast them too so that they become dark brown in color, just roast to get the little aroma of spices.
5. Put the roasted spices and green chilies into the chicken gravy and cover the pan. Cook for 5 minutes more and when oil starts to appear on the surface of the chicken gravy switch off the flame.
6. Take out the delicious tomato chicken in a serving dish and sprinkle with thin slices of ginger. This tomato chicken is best to enjoy with naan or fried rice.

Tomato Chicken Recipe

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