Dahi Methi Murgh

About this Recipe...

Dahi Methi Murgh is a delicious chicken preparation, cooked with yogurt and fresh fenugreek leaves or Methi leaves. Yogurt and fenugreek leaves goes very well with each other. This lip smacking chicken recipe is ideal for your lunch and dinner and goes very well with rice, roti or naan. So if you got bored with regular chicken curry and want to try something different then give it a try. You will definitely love it.

Ingredients

• 1 lb Chicken cut into medium size pieces
• 1/4 Cup Yoghurt
• 1 Tbsp Ginger paste
• 1 Tbsp Garlic paste
• 1 Tbsp Green chili paste
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder
• 1 tsp Cumin powder
• 1 tsp Coriander powder
• 1 tsp Black pepper powder
• 2 Tbsp Ghee or clarified butter
• 2 Tbsp Oil
• 2 Pieces green cardamom
• 3-4 cloves
• 4-5 black pepper corn
• 1/2 Cup Onion chopped
• 1/2 Bunch fresh fenugreek leaves chopped
• 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder

Directions

1. Marinate the chicken with yoghurt, ginger-garlic-green chili paste, salt, turmeric powder, cumin-coriander powder and black pepper powder. Mix everything well and keep it in refrigerator for at least one hour.
2. Now in a pan, heat up oil and clarified butter together and add cloves, cardamom and black pepper corn for tempering.
3. When you will get nice aroma from the spices, add chopped onion to it and sauté it till it become translucent.
4. Now add the chopped fenugreek leaves to the pan and fry it with onion for 2-3 minutes.
5. Next add the marinated chicken and mix nicely.
6. Cover the pan and cook it in slow flame.
7. Check the chicken in between and stir it, so it doesn't get stick to the bottom of the pan.
8. Cook in this way for about 20-30 minutes until the chicken get cooked nicely.
9. If the mixture is too dry then add some water to it and finally sprinkle some garam masala powder and your Dahi Methi Murgh is ready to serve.