Chicken Ra Ra...

1st Stage Ingredients:-

Onion - 3 nos
Green Chilly - 3 nos
Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp
Chopped Garlic - 1 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilly Powder - 1/2 tsp
Tomato - 1 nos
Water -1  1/2 cup

2nd Stage Ingredients:-

Chicken - 24 small size pieces.
Water - 1 cup
Salt - to taste

3rd Stage Ingredients:-
Oil - To deep fry
Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp
Chopped Garlic - 2 tbsp
Green Chilly - 3 nos
Onion - 1
Kashmiri Chilly Powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
Kasuri Methi - 3/4 tssp
Cumin Powder - 3/4 tsp
Garam Masala - 1 tsp
Tomato - 1
Coriander Leaves -
Cashew Nut Paste - 2 tbsp

Method:-

- Cook the ingredients of Stage 1 in a pan.
- Once cooked, let it cool down and then grind this to make it a fine paste.
- In a pan add the chicken pieces and the finely ground paste and 1 cup of water along with salt.
- Cook this for 20 mins with lid on.
- Take oil in a pan for deep frying, and heat it.
- Once the oil is hot enough, add chopped ginger, chopped garlic and chopped green chillies
- Fry until golden brown. Drain the excess oil and keep this aside.
- Add chopped onion to the same oil and fry until it becomes golden brown in color.
- Once fried, keep the fried onion aside.
- Take 1 1/2 tbsp of this hot oil on to another pan and keep this in low flame.
- Add Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Kasuri Methi, Cumin Powder, Garam Masala and sliced Tomato to the oil.
- Saute this until the tomato is cooked.
- Add the cooked Chicken to the same pan and saute.
- Add the deep fried ingredients to the same pan and mix well.
- On to this add cashew paste and mix well.
- Add chopped Coriander Leaves to this and serve hot.

(Courtsey: - Lakshmi Nair in Magic Oven)