Indian Ginger Chicken recipe, Adraki Murgh Salan
Indian Ginger Chicken recipe or the Adraki Murgh Salan, made with lots of ginger flavor will be your favorite if you love ginger. The ginger is both added in the form of paste and julienne to give lots of flavor an aroma to the chicken.
Ingredients
- 500 gms chicken boneless or bone in, cut into small pieces
- 2 tbsp ginger paste always use the fresh ginger. Peel the ginger and make it into a paste when you are making this dish
- salt to taste
- 1 cup yogurt
- 1 tbsp red chili flakes even red chili powder will do, but I love the taste of freshly crushed red chili flakes
- 2 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp garam masala powder
- 3 tbsp oil
- 2 onion finely sliced
- 2 tbsp ginger juliennes cut into into fine pieces or chop it finely. If you keep it thick, the taste will be too over powering in the mouth
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken pieces with ginger paste, salt, yogurt, red chili flakes, cumin powder and garam masala powder for at least an hour. If possible you can even marinate overnight, but if you are short on time, even an hour will do to get the flavors in the chicken.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry onions till lightly brown in color. Do not over brown it as it will spoil the taste while frying the ginger.
- Throw in the ginger julienne and fry lightly. Just enough to fry the ginger and do not brown it. Add in the marinated chicken and cook till done with the lid closed on medium flame. Add in water according to your consistency preference. You can add more water for a gravy like consistency or just let the chicken cook on it's own for a dry type of curry. The marinate leaves water on it's own, so you can omit it totally for a drier version. Cook till done and remove from flame.
- Serve hot garnished with coriander leaves and ginger julienne.