Mughlai cuisine is a fusion of Persian and Indian culinary styles. It has rich sauces, butter based curries, ginger flavoured roast meats and sweets that are fit for the king! Mughlai food offers a rich fare that is irresistible. Mughlai food is aromatic, marinated as it is in masalas of ginger and golden fried onion. <br />Ingredients <br />Whole Skinless Chicken – 1 (1.5 kg) <br />Oil for frying and cooking – 1 cup <br />Curd - 1 cup <br /> <br />For Marination <br />Curd – 5 tbspoon <br />Ginger Garlic Paste – 1.5 tbspoon <br />Red chilli powder – 2 teaspoon <br />Salt to taste <br />Red orange food colour – 1 teaspoon <br /> <br />For Dry Roast <br />Whole coriander seeds – 2 tbspoon <br />Cumin seed – 1 tbspoon <br />Black pepper – 1 tbspoon <br />Cinnom stick – 5 (1.5 inch long) <br />Green cardamom – 4 pieces <br />Black Cardamom – 2 pieces <br />Cloves – 4 <br />Mace – 2 blades <br /> <br />For Fry <br />Almonds – ½ cup <br />Cashewnut – ½ cup <br />Onion – 2 big (finely sliced lengthwise) <br /> <br />For stuffing the stomach kavity. <br />Resins..1 table spoon <br />Casheunuts..1 tablespoon <br />Almonds....1 tablespoon. <br /> <br />For Garnishing <br />Onion Rings, Tomatoes slices, Coriander leaves and fried onion. Some sliced dry fruits. <br /> <br />Method: <br />1. Marinate chicken for 1 hr (as shown in video) and marination ingredients <br />2. Roast ingredients in a pan (refer roasted ingredients mentioned above) and remove from the pan. <br />3. Put oil in the same pan and fry ( almonds and cashewnut) then remove from the pan <br />4. Now fry onion till golden brown, then remove onion from the pan <br />5. Make a fine paste of roasted and fried ingredients together <br />6. keep some golden fried onion slices aside. <br />7. Now fry marinated chicken in the same oil and same pan and cook it on low flame with lid on. (as shown in video) <br />8. cook for 20 mins on low flame till it become tender. <br />9. For gravy cook all the paste ingredients and marinated masala in the same oil for 5 mins. <br />10. Now gravy and chicken both are ready <br />11. Place chicken in the gravy and garnish and serve (as per the video)
