No Oil Chicken Curry

No Oil Chicken Curry

In general perception, nonveg dish will be very spicy and oily. It would be full of calories. But here I am going to share a recipe of chicken without oil. Yes, heard it right. There is not a single drop of oil used. But the taste and colour won't affect with it. No one can guess that it is prepared without oil as long as you mentioned it.

Some weeks back I wanted to lose some weight. But being a foodie I didn't want to curb my eating tasty food. So I took this midway path. So I come out with this lovely recipe. Here is the recipe....

Chicken- 1 kg

Curd- 1 Cup

Onion- 2 large

Ginger- 1 inch piece

Garlic- 10 cloves

Tomato- 2 Medium

Green Chili- 2

Coriander Seeds- 1tbsp

Cumin Seeds- 1tbsp

Kshmiri Red Chili- 4

Turmeric- 1tsp

Kshmiri Red Chili Powder- 1/2tsp

Green Cardamom- 4

Clove- 4

Cinnamon- 1 inch piece

Salt- 1/2 tsp or as per taste

Chopped Coriander for Garnishing

Clean and cubed the onions. Chop ginger and garlic. Then boil all these along with red chili for 10 mins with 1 cup of water and let it cool down. After cooling down make a paste.

Dry roast the coriander seeds and cumin seeds up to slightly change in colour. then powder it to a coarse powder.

Hung curd for half an hour so that excess water will be drained of.

Clean and cube tomatoes and make a smooth puree without adding water.

In a big bowl add cleaned chicken, hung curd, onion paste, tomato puree, salt, haldi, red chili powder, coriander and cumin powder. Mix everything properly and marinate it for at least 3 hours or over night in fridge.

Bring out the marinated chicken from fridge one hour before cooking.

In a heavy bottom pan add the chicken with marinate and cook for 10 mins in high. Add bay leaf to this.  After 10 mins you can see water released from the stuff. Now lower the flame and let it cook.

In the mean time dry roast cinnamon, green cardamom and clove up to nice smell comes. Then make powder of these.

Add the above garam masala mix to the curry. Cook this up to the chicken is cooked properly. Adjust seasoning and gravy as per your taste.

It is best served with plain rice or roti.