So I have made it to the second day of my chasing a bloggers dream. To be Honest I have tried a lot of things and have given them up as soon as I picked them. My family says that I have the attention of a 2 year old. If I have to defend myself..I'll say there is no lack of ideas but inspiration. Like when I brought a cool looking sketch pad and ridiculously expensive shading pencils (read outrageously expensive...come on they are just pencils) thinking that ..Yes this is my ultimate hobby and I will spend all my free time sketching. 4 years and that sketch pad has 4 half complete sketches waiting for my attention laying on my bookshelf. Not to brag but I am a pretty good artist. I did brag didn't I. Anyway there was this other time I bugged my husband to buy me a sewing machine..swore that I took sewing classes as a teenager and have sown a lot of things for my mom and I can do that now as well....he took a look at me and said "no you wont as you don't have time between work and home". that's how my designer dreams were shattered...or that's what I thought at that time. What if he had brought it? It would have been put to a great use for some half clothing projects and they it would be laying in some corner of my house gathering dust, getting an occasional cleaning in 3- 4 months. I guess I need to work really really really hard to keep this blog working, given my track record. I will be honest as of now I'm enjoying the nightly writing sprees.
 My family is a big non-veg lover. If we do not get a chicken leg in dinner, with left over in a sandwich for the next morning and follow it up with fish in the afternoon, the whole purpose of our existence ceases to nothing. You would know how seriously we take our meat is, when I will tell you that my 2 years old refuses to eat anything else if there is chicken for lunch or dinner. I mean when u have a platter full of amazingness in front of you, who wants to accompany it with rice or chappati- right! This Sunday I had planned for a vegetarian dinner and with great tactics told my husband that vegetables are good. We should have all vegetarian dinner tonight. he agreed with a small face and went back to his T.V. Suddenly when I am about to serve food; he looks at me with puppy eyes and says "Aajke to Sunday, aajke to bhogobano mangso khete bole" (ever gods wont mind us eating meat on a Sunday). Ah the face you make when you realize that you're not just done yet, you have to spend another hour in the kitchen, in this heat preparing a Chicken dish. I could see that I had a bad expression on my face with the way he cowered, realizing that he should have mentioned God's wishes an hour ago. So that started the frantic microwave thawing of chicken and search through all the cookbooks for a quick recipe without much prep work. Well the search came back with big bag of na da, as I couldn't find a recipe with minimum ingredients and less efforts, no puns here. I guess it was for good, coz now I have an amazing recipe with great taste, which practically requires just 2 core ingredients for the gravy. So if you do not want to slog you ass off for hours but still want to make a great chicken gravy dish, well then stop everything and read through: 
The things you require are:
1 whole chicken-curry cut
1 cup dahi (yogurt)
4 large tomatoes (pureed)
1 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
1 tbsp red chili powder
1/2 tbsp garam masala powder
2 tbsp sugar or honey
1/2 tbsp kasoori methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
2 tbsp butter
salt to taste
Whole garam masala
Method: Marinate the chicken with yogurt, ginger-garlic paste, garam masala powder and salt. In a heavy bottomed pan add some vegetable oil and once it is hot add the whole garam masala and let it splutter. Put the marinated chicken in it. On medium to high flame roast the chicken till it has browned from all sides and almost done. Add the rest of the ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute. Now add the tomato puree, salt, chili powder, remaining garam masala powder, left over marinade with one cup of water. Bring the gravy to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for ten minutes. Stir in the sugar/honey and crushed kasoori methi. When the oil separates from the gravy it is done. Take off the heat and add the butter and stir gently. It goes really well with steaming hot rice or Parathas. I haven't tried it yet, but I think the paneer variant will also taste amazing. By the time I was done cooking it, we were really hungry, so couldn't really take good dressed up shots of this dish. Lemme me know if you liked it or made it or hate it or have some thing similar up your sleeves. I would love to hear it. Till then take care. I should really go and catch some sleep now. Ritika   |
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