Revayati Murgh Salan (Traditional Chicken Curry)

Easiest Chicken salan recipe which is commonly used in Pakistani home cooking. Its not korma, nor karahi, nothing special but tastes awesome….. almost every woman in Pakistan knows this recipe of chicken curry thats why it is called Revayati means traditional Murgh means chicken salan means curry……. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 2 large onion sliced
• 1.5 kg chicken pieces (chicken cut into 12 pieces)
• 3 tomatoes sliced
• 4 – 5 green chillies (2 sliced, 3 normal)
• A bunch of coriander (chopped)
• 1 cup oil
• 1 tbspn crushed ginger
• 1 tbspns minced garlic

MASALA

• Salt to taste
• Some red chilli
• 1 tspn turmeric powder
• 1 tspn garam masala
• 1 tspn coriander masala
• ½ tspn cumin powder
• ½ tspn cumin seeds

Procedure:

-Heat oil and fry onion until its golden brown. Add ginger and garlic and stir fry for 2 minutes. Now add tomatoes and cook for 2 minutes on medium heat until they tend to lose their stiffness. Add some water (1/4 cup) and simmer the curry. Break and mash the onion and tomato chunks with your spoon.

-Add more water in needed but in very less amount.

-When masala is all good to go, add chicken and spices and cook covered on low heat for 30 minutes with occasional stirring. Let the chicken cook in its own juices.

-Now when the oil comes to the surface, add coriander and green chillies and serve hot with chapattis.