Restaurant Style Chicken Angara is a spicy chicken curry made using freshly ground masala powder. Make it using my easy recipe at home.
Chicken Angara gets it's name from the smoky aroma and flavour of the gravy that makes it unique from other chicken gravy curries.
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Chicken Angara
Ingredients:
Spices for dry masala powder:
Coriander seeds 3 Tsp
Cumin seeds 2 Tsp
Green Cardamom 5
Black Pepper corns 18-20 nos
Cloves 6
Cinnamon 2 sticks
Whole dried red Chillies- 4 nos.
Cashew nuts 12
Almonds 12
Onions sliced & fried golden 2 medium size
Tomatoes quartered 4 medium size
Curd or yogurt 1/2 Cup
Ginger garlic paste 3 Tsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder 2 tsp
Chicken with bones 1 kg
Salt 1 Tsp to taste
Oil 3 tbsp
Piece of charcoal for infusing smoke
Ghee/Oil for smoking - few drops
Directions:
Dry roast the spices for the masala powder, on a pan on low flame for a minute. Cool & grind them to a powder in a grinder.
Fry the onions till golden & set aside.
Take a grinder & add the fried onions and the chopped tomatoes. Grind it into a smooth paste.
Chicken Marination:
Whisked Curd/Yogurt 1/2 Cup
Add the 2 Tsp ginger garlic paste
Add the powdered roasted masala and mix well
Add the fried onion & tomato paste
Mix well.
Take the chicken pieces in a bowl & add salt.
Process:
Heat oil in a kadhai.
Add the marinated pieces of chicken (without the marinade) & cook on high heat for 5 mins.
Add the rest of the marinade and keep cooking for another 5 mins on medium heat till oil starts leaving the sides.
Add the Kashmiri Chilli powder. Mix well & fry for 2 mins.
Add little water if required, lower flame & cook covered for around 15-20 mins till chicken is cooked & oil separates.
Fire up a small piece of charcoal directly on the gas stove till it starts glowing.
Place a small steel bowl on top of the chicken.
once the charcoal is ready, hold it with a tong & place it in the steel bowl.
Immediately drop little oil on the burning charcoal & close the lid immediately.
Cover it for around 10 mins
Garnish with fresh coriander & serve hot with roti or rumali roti.
