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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.

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Spicy Chicken Karahi

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

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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.

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  • Cook8 min
  • Total8 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CourseMain course
  • CuisinePakistani

Ingredients 25

4 servings

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Instructions 11

  1. In a pan, heat ⅓ cup oil and add 50g butter.

  2. Add 2 medium chopped onions and sauté until translucent.

  3. Add 1 kg chicken and mix well. Cook for 5 minutes on low flame.

  4. Add 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste and mix well.

  5. Add 4 tomatoes, cover with a lid, and cook until soft. Remove the tomato skins and mash the tomatoes.

  6. Add black pepper, cumin powder, crushed chillies, salt, and coriander powder. Mix well.

  7. Add ½ cup yogurt and cook until everything is well combined.

  8. In a separate pan, dry roast cumin seeds, coriander seeds, black peppercorns, and whole dried red chillies. Grind them and sprinkle over the karahi.

  9. Mix well, cover, and cook for 3 minutes.

  10. Add 100 ml cream and mix well.

  11. Garnish with butter, green chillies, lemon slices, ginger, and the remaining ground roasted masala.

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