Spicy Chicken Karahi Recipe 🌶️🍗 A creamy, buttery, and spicy restaurant-style Chicken Karahi — rich in flavor, full of aroma, and perfect for dinner or daawat nights.
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Spicy Chicken Karahi
A creamy, buttery, and spicy restaurant-style Chicken Karahi, rich in flavor, full of aroma, and perfect for dinner or daawat nights.
- Cook8 min
- Total8 min
- DifficultyEasy
- CourseMain course
- CuisinePakistani
Ingredients 25
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Instructions 11
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In a pan, heat ⅓ cup oil and add 50g butter.
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Add 2 medium chopped onions and sauté until translucent.
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Add 1 kg chicken and mix well. Cook for 5 minutes on low flame.
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Add 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste and mix well.
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Add 4 tomatoes, cover with a lid, and cook until soft. Remove the tomato skins and mash the tomatoes.
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Add black pepper, cumin powder, crushed chillies, salt, and coriander powder. Mix well.
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Add ½ cup yogurt and cook until everything is well combined.
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In a separate pan, dry roast cumin seeds, coriander seeds, black peppercorns, and whole dried red chillies. Grind them and sprinkle over the karahi.
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Mix well, cover, and cook for 3 minutes.
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Add 100 ml cream and mix well.
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Garnish with butter, green chillies, lemon slices, ginger, and the remaining ground roasted masala.
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