How to Cook Tasty Dhaba Style Chicken Curry

Dhaba Style Chicken Curry. This Dhaba Style Chicken Curry stands for every road trip we've had with our families. It stands for all the stop-overs and midway cravings. It is hot and fragrant and is made with ground spices, onions and tomatoes.

This tastes exactly the ones you get in dhabas. Perfect with some steaming hot rice, roti, paratha, or naan, and fresh salad on the side. What is Dhaba Style Chicken Curry? You can have Dhaba Style Chicken Curry using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dhaba Style Chicken Curry

You need 3 of Onions chopped.
Prepare 4 tsp of oil.
It's 3 tablespoon of Garlic paste.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of Ginger paste.
It's 2 of Tomatoes puree.
You need 2 tsp of chopped coriander leaves.
You need 400 gm of Chicken.
You need 3-4 of Green chillies.
You need 1-2 of dried red chilis.
It's to taste of salt and pepper powder.
You need 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder.
It's 2 tsp of lemon juice.
It's 1 tsp of cumin powder.
You need 1 teaspoon of Garam masala.

A simple Chicken Curry, which is served in almost all the roadside non-veg highway dhabas of North India. This chicken curry has the simplest of ingredients such as whole spices, ginger, garlic, onions, tomatoes and curd. Chicken sauteed in onion tomato masala, flavoured with aromatic spices and served with your favourite Indian bread, dhaba-styled chicken is perfect to satiate your chicken curry cravings. My dhaba style chicken curry is a onion and tomato based curry.

Dhaba Style Chicken Curry instructions

Marinate the chicken with salt, pepper,lime juice,red chili powder and put it into the fridge for 20 mins..
Take out the chicken,heat oil and saute the chicken for 5-7 mins.
Heat white oil and add the chopped onions, while they turn light brown,add the ginger and garlic paste. Add red chili powder and cumin powder.
Add salt and a bit of the coriander leaves. Let the masala form..
Now add the lightly fried chicken pieces. Mix for at least 8-10 mins. Now add two cups of hot water and let the chicken boil. Keep the flame low..
When the gravy is forming, add 2-3 green chillies and the coriander leaves. Keep the heat high. Let the juice dry out. Till then,stir and mix continually..
Turn off the gas. Spread garam masala powder and serve hot.

It is the use of the tomatoes that renders the curry its beautiful red colour. The use of whole spices in this recipe is only limited to cumin seeds and bay leaves. Since we are talking of roadside eateries, the recipe can't be extravagant. For the dhaba style chicken curry, heat ghee in a heavy-bottomed pot. Once the ghee is hot, add crushed cloves, black peppercorns, cinnamon, black cardamom and dry red chillies and let them crackle till you can smell their fragrance.