HOTCHULHA

Ingredients:

•  Chicken Pieces – 1 Lb
• Green Chillies – 5 cut into pieces
• Tomato – 1/2 Puree
• Onion – 1 medium – cut into small pieces
• Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 Table Spoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 Table Spoon
• Curd – 1/4 Cup
• Butter – 2 Table Spoon
• Cloves – 4
• Cinnamon – 1/2 inch
• Clove Powder – 1/8 Tea spoon
• Mint – 5 leaves
• Cilantro – handful
• Salt
• Oil
• Dry Masala : Grind the following and make the Dry Masala.
  • Poppy Seeds – 1 Tea spoon
  • Dry Coconut Powder 0 2 Table Spoons
  • Cinnamon – 1/2 Inch

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix the butter, curd, salt, chicken pieces with 1/4 tea spoon of ginger/garlic paste and bake it for 20 minutes.
3. In a pan put the oil. Once oil is hot, put the onion, green chillies, cloves, cinnamon stick and saute it for couple of minutes and now its time to put ginger/garlic paste and fry it till the raw smell goes.
4. Put the baked chicken pieces, dry masala powder, Chilli powder, Mint leaves and  salt. Saute it for 2 minutes and then put the tomato puree and cook it for 20 minutes.
5. Garnish it with Cilantro.

Tip: It goes very well with Roties, plain rice and Fried Rice.