Chicken Curry

"Chicken Curry" is a dish seen almost too often in Indian cuisine & everybody has their own style of making chicken curry. I have 2 styles that my family likes & I'm going to share both of these styles with you all :)

Both the styles use almost the same ingredients.

This is the Bengali-style chicken curry:

Procedure:-

I have coated 1 kg chicken (with bones) with salt, turmeric powder and chilly powder.
Then take a pressure cooker and heat around 3 tsp of refined oil.
Once the oil heats up add onions- pasted (around 3 big onions) and 2 Tbsp of ginger & garlic paste.

Fry until they are brown & then add 1 tsp of turmeric powder, 2 tsp of Kashmiri lal (red-chilly powder) & a fine paste of 4 tomatoes.

While frying these add the marinated chicken to the paste and fry for another 10 minutes.

Then add a tsp of sugar and a Tbsp of garam masala and 2 tsp of ghee (clarified butter) to the chicken.

Now add the salt according to your taste and add 2 cups of water and put on the lid and wait for 2 whistles. 

Give it a standing time of 15 minutes and serve hot with white rice.

This is Spicy Indian Chicken:

Procedure:-

This chicken dish has less curry. 

Coat the chicken pieces as above and then fry the chicken pieces and keep it aside. 
Here we do not make a paste from onions and tomatoes, The onions and tomatoes are chopped into small pieces.
Then take some oil in a a pan /wok then fry the chopped onions, garlic & ginger.
Next add the chopped tomatoes and other masalas (spices as used above). 
Here I have used 2 Tbsp of chicken ready-made masala instead of garam masala powder.
Then add the fried chicken to it and cook till all the water gets dried up. 
This is cooked in medium flame in an open wok/pan so that the  chicken gets cooked properly from inside. 
Before serving you can add a Tsp of ghee or butter for additional flavor. This chicken recipe is enjoyed with roti and paratha (flat bread)

PS:-
The "Ready Made Chicken Masala" I used is this. It is a good spice mix which adds to the taste. You can buy it in any grocery store and even online.