How To Make Dhaba Style Chicken Curry At Home
Sometimes, we all just feel like we want to hit the highway and head for the nearest dhaba for a delicious meal. Because there’s just something about dhaba food that hits differently. Especially when it comes to curries. Dhaba style chicken curry with butter is one of the most delightful meals one can experience, especially when they’re on a road trip. But there are times when we have cravings for dhaba food even when we’re not on a road trip. In such times, the best thing you can do is prepare some chicken curry at home, and you can do it dhaba style even at home with the right ingredients. Here’s a chicken curry recipe that you can easily make when you have such cravings!
Ingredients
In Dhaba Style Chicken Curry
Chicken 500 grams, bone-in pieces
Sunflower Oil 5 tablespoons
Cinnamon Stick 1 piece
Black Cardamom: 1 pod
Ginger-Garlic Paste 1 tablespoon
Kashmiri Red Chili Powder 1 tablespoon
Cumin Powder 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder 1/2 teaspoon
Onions 2 medium, finely chopped
Tomatoes 2 medium, pureed
Kasuri Methi 1 tablespoon
Yogurt 1/4 cup, whisked
Cloves 6
Green Chilli 2
Green Cardamom 5
Fresh Coriander Leaves, chopped (for garnish), ¼ cup
Nutralite Doodhshakti Pure Ghee 1 tbsp
How To Make Dhaba Style Chicken Curry
Step 1: Heat up the Spices and Add Onions
To begin with, heat the whole spices (cinnamon, cloves, black cardamom and green cardamom) in some oil. Once they’re heated up, add the sliced onions to the spices and cook until they look golden brown.
Step 2: Prepare the Sauté
Once the onions look golden brown, add some ginger-garlic paste, slit green chillies, all the spice powders and salt. Sauté these ingredients for 20 seconds, and then add the pureed tomatoes. Cook the ingredients for five minutes, adding water when necessary.
Step 3: Time to Introduce the Chicken
There’s no chicken curry without chicken. So now it’s time to add chicken to the curry. Add the chicken pieces to the curry mix and sauté it for 2 minutes.
Step 4: Cook the Chicken Curry
Add some water to the chicken curry, enough so that all the ingredients are covered in it. Cook it for 20 minutes on a low flame.
Step 5: Taste the Curry
You’ll need to cook the chicken curry until the oil is floating at the top, or around the edges. When you see this happen, you’ll know the masalas have been cooked. Taste and adjust for the salt according to your preference.
Step 6: Final Touches for Added Flavor
Add chopped coriander leaves and crushed kasuri methi to the chicken curry, and remove it from the heat. In a separate pan, heat up some ghee and chopped ginger. Add some chilli powder to this pan and then turn off the flame. Then add this to the chicken curry. We suggest using Nutralite Doodhshakti Pure Ghee here because it comes enriched with vitamin A and is good for your gut health and digestion.
Ingredients
In Dhaba Style Chicken Curry
Chicken 500 grams, bone-in pieces
Sunflower Oil 5 tablespoons
Cinnamon Stick 1 piece
Black Cardamom: 1 pod
Ginger-Garlic Paste 1 tablespoon
Kashmiri Red Chili Powder 1 tablespoon
Cumin Powder 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder 1/2 teaspoon
Onions 2 medium, finely chopped
Tomatoes 2 medium, pureed
Kasuri Methi 1 tablespoon
Yogurt 1/4 cup, whisked
Cloves 6
Green Chilli 2
Green Cardamom 5
Fresh Coriander Leaves, chopped (for garnish), ¼ cup
Nutralite Doodhshakti Pure Ghee 1 tbsp
How To Make Dhaba Style Chicken Curry
Step 1: Heat up the Spices and Add Onions
To begin with, heat the whole spices (cinnamon, cloves, black cardamom and green cardamom) in some oil. Once they’re heated up, add the sliced onions to the spices and cook until they look golden brown.
Step 2: Prepare the Sauté
Once the onions look golden brown, add some ginger-garlic paste, slit green chillies, all the spice powders and salt. Sauté these ingredients for 20 seconds, and then add the pureed tomatoes. Cook the ingredients for five minutes, adding water when necessary.
Step 3: Time to Introduce the Chicken
There’s no chicken curry without chicken. So now it’s time to add chicken to the curry. Add the chicken pieces to the curry mix and sauté it for 2 minutes.
Step 4: Cook the Chicken Curry
Add some water to the chicken curry, enough so that all the ingredients are covered in it. Cook it for 20 minutes on a low flame.
Step 5: Taste the Curry
You’ll need to cook the chicken curry until the oil is floating at the top, or around the edges. When you see this happen, you’ll know the masalas have been cooked. Taste and adjust for the salt according to your preference.
Step 6: Final Touches for Added Flavor
Add chopped coriander leaves and crushed kasuri methi to the chicken curry, and remove it from the heat. In a separate pan, heat up some ghee and chopped ginger. Add some chilli powder to this pan and then turn off the flame. Then add this to the chicken curry. We suggest using Nutralite Doodhshakti Pure Ghee here because it comes enriched with vitamin A and is good for your gut health and digestion.
Dhaba-style chicken curry is among the most delightful dishes you can enjoy with either rotis or rice depending on your preference. You’ll also have a great time cooking chicken curry at home because of all the satisfying aromas and the way it’s not just a feast for your tummy, but also for your senses! Because who says homemade chicken curry can’t taste like dhaba-style curry?
Additional Tips
Butter chicken, also known as “murgh makhani” in Hindi, is believed to have originated by chance in Delhi, India.
Legend has it that it was created in the 1950s at the Moti Mahal restaurant when leftover tandoori chicken was mixed with a rich, tomato-based gravy, and the result was the now-beloved dish, butter chicken. This is a testament to how some of the most iconic and delicious recipes are often born out of culinary experimentation.
- If you’re a vegetarian and love dhaba-style food recipes, a dhaba-style paneer curry recipe will follow a similar approach, replacing the chicken with pieces. There are plenty of vegetarian Indian curry recipes that you can try making at home!
- For some buttery goodness, you can replace ghee with Nutralite Doodhshakti Probiotic Butter Spread, which comes loaded with probiotic benefits.
Delicious Dhaba Chicken
- Desi-style chicken curry isn’t the only kind of chicken dish Indian dhabas are famous for. You can also make some other dhaba chicken dishes at home such as butter chicken with rotis.
Feel free to add your own special twists and variations to make this Dhaba Style Chicken Curry recipe truly yours. If you come up with any unique recipes or creative tidbits on how to make Dhaba Style Chicken Curry even healthier, do share this with us @nutralite
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