Chicken Chaap

Ingredients :-

• Chicken full leg pieces - 700gm
• Kashmir red chili powder - 2 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
• Salt as per taste
• Curd (yogurt) - 1 cup
• Ghee/Butter - 1/2 cup
• Refined oil
• Ginger and garlic paste - 2 tbsp
• Onion paste - 2 nobs
•  Poppy seeds - 2 tbsp
• Cashew nut - 2 tbsp
• Melon seeds - 2 tbsp
• Roasted Gram Flour - 2 tbsp
• Biriyani Masala - 1tbsp
• Saffron (kesar) -pinch(soaked into Hot milk)
• kewara water - 1 tbsp

Method :-

• Wash the chicken properly and put some cut into it so that marination will go inside properly.
• Take the chicken pieces into a bowl and add curd,Onion paste,ginger and garlic paste marinate the chicken nicely and keep it aside.
• Now take  soaked Poppy seeds,Cashew nuts,Melon seeds(before 1 hour you have to soak it in water) add put it into the blender and make a fine paste then keep it aside.
• Now add the Poppy seeds,Cashew Nuts,Melon seeds paste into the chicken,then add roasted gram flour, Biriyani masala,chili powder, kewra water,salt,turmeric powder,saffron soaked with milk, add everything all together and mix nicely with chicken pieces so that chicken has to well coated with masala and keep it into the refrigerator for 1-2 hours(you can keep it for over night).
• After 1-2 hours keep a pan/kadai for heat adding with 1/2 cup of oil and 2 tbsp ghee.
• Once oil is hot add marinated chicken chicken pieces(remove excess masala add only chicken pieces) one by one and fry it with medium flame from both the site till it became golden brown in color.
• Once it's done remove it to a plate and keep it aside,you have to repeat the same process and fry all the marinated chicken pieces and keep it aside.
• Now in the another pan add little more oil with ghee,once its hot the add all the excesses marinated Masala.
• Mix the Masala properly and cook it nicely ,once Masala start living oil add little water 1/2 cup and mix it .
• Now add the fried chicken pieces in to the Masala gravy,slowly mix it then cover the lid and let it cook for another 10 mints with medium flame,in between you have to remove the lid and mix once.
• After 10 mints switch off the flame rest it for 5 mints then serve hot with Roti/Nan/Paratha and enjoy.