Chicken Mahkani

Introduction

Yes another cooking thread! They seem to still be reasonably popular, hopefully the trend won't die out too soon as I love cooking and sharing what I cook.

Today I made a curry, a Chicken Mahkani which is one of my favourite currys.

Ingredients

• 4 large skinned chicken breasts
• 2 large red chillies
• 4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• 150ml double cream
• 150ml natural yogurt
• 1 fresh lemon
• 1 tsp Garam Masala
• 2 tsp Ground Cumin
• 2 tblsp Coriander leaves
• 50g Butter
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1.5kg fresh ripe tomatos

Method

• Core and deseed the chillies, chop them up fine.

• Add the chillies, fine chopped garlic, cumin and garam masala to a small bowl.

• Mash it up and then add the juice of the lemon, coriander leaves and the yogurt to create the marinade. Really this should be blended but as I don't have a blender I did it by hand. If you have a blender though, use it.

• Chop up the chicken into 3cm pieces and put into a non metallic bowl

• Mix in the marinade with the chicken, cover and put in the fridge for 3hours.

• While that is happening....

Quarter the tomatos and put into a pan with nothing else. Warm for 20mins on a low to medium heat

• They will start to go like this.

• Strain the tomatos into a clean pan using a fine seive. Throw away the skins and pulp left over.

• You end up with a tomato sauce like so, heat this for 50 mins until reduced to a nice thick sauce. You may need to skim off any yellow stuff off the top as it is heating.

• Add in 50g of butter and salt then stir and heat for another 20mins

• Add in the 150ml of double cream, heat through thoroughly and set aside

• By this time the chicken should be ready, so heat a pan with 3 tbl spoons of vegetable oil and add it all.

• Cook for 15 minutes on a medium heat.

• Add in the tomato sauce and stir and heat for 5 minutes

• The finished curry

• Serve with basmati rice

Yummy!