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.