How To Make Yummy Chicken Gravy Recipe At Your Home?

I love to experiment with chicken as much as I love to eat it. I must say I haven’t found an ingredient so much suitable for experimenting as Chicken is. Be it curry or fried, chicken is a delight. It mixes with the spices and flavors well and the result is mouth watering dishes.

Of all the gravies recipes of chicken I have tried at home, I am sharing Chicken gravy recipe which is simple with tomato and capsicum veggies. I used some basic ingredient and sauces along with homemade masala. I like the chicken to be tangy and chili, with lots of Indian herbs like mint and coriander. Curry leaves also go well in chicken curry. My family prefers to have this curry with simple or jeera rice or chapattis. It is ideal for a main course dish.

Chicken Gravy Recipe

• Preparation: 30 minutes
  
• Cooking Time: 50 minutes
  
• Total Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
  
• Servings: 6

Required Ingredients:

For Marination:

• 1 kg chopped Chicken with bone pieces
  
• Chili powder 1 tablespoon
  
• Lemon juice 1 and ½ teaspoon
  
• Turmeric powder 2 teaspoon
  
• Garam masala 2 teaspoon
  
• Salt as required
  
• Ginger Garlic paste 1 tablespoon
  
• Curd/ yogurt 4 tablespoon

For Gravy:

• 5 tablespoon cooking oil
  
• Cumin/jeera seeds 1 teaspoon
  
• Fennel seeds 1 tablespoon
  
• Cinnamon one 2 cm long piece
  
• Onions 3-4 longitudinally or cubically sliced large ones
  
• Capsicum 1 medium sized , chopped cubically
  
• Tomatoes 4 large one thinly sliced
  
• Ginger garlic paste 2 tablespoon
  
• Kashmiri Chili Powder 3 tablespoon
  
• Coriander Powder 2 tablespoon
  
• Turmeric Powder 1 teaspoon
  
• Garam Masala 1 tablespoon
  
• Chili Powder 1 tablespoon
  
• Tomato Ketchup 3 tablespoon
  
• Green Chili sauce 2 tablespoon
  
• Soya Sauce 1 tablespoon
• Salt to taste
  
• Coriander leaves chopped 1 tablespoon

How To Make Chicken Gravy Recipe?

1. Wash chicken pieces nicely, pat dry and set aside.
   
2. Now add marination masala – Red chili powder, Turmeric powder and garam masala and coriander powder and jeera/ cumin powder.
   
3. Add salt, ginger garlic paste and yogurt to this.
   
4. Add four drops of lemon juice to this. This makes the chicken really juicy and tangy.
   
5. Mix all the ingredients well and set aside for minimum 30 minutes. You can also refrigerate this for long hours.
   
6. Meanwhile you can prepare the other ingredients like chopping the veggies.
   
7. After 30 minutes, transfer the chicken to a pressure cooker and add water.
   
8. Now pressure cook the chicken for 2 whistles.
   
9. Keep the flame on low and cook for about 10 minutes.
   
10. Then turning off the flame, let the vapor release by itself.
    
11. In a Kadai, heat any cooking oil.
    
12. Add fennel seeds, cumin seeds and cinnamon stick and sauté till they crackle.
    
13. Now add onions and sauté.
    
14. You can add salt to onions so that it fries fast. Onion loses moisture fast when salt is added to it.
    
15. When onions turn lightly golden brown, add chopped tomato and capsicum pieces.
    
16. Sauté till these veggies become soft and lose moisture.
    
17. Now transfer half of these veg masala in a blender jar and grind to medium smooth paste.
    
18. Then add the paste to the same kadai and mix well.
    
19. Now add garam masala, turmeric and coriander powder and red chili powder.
    
20. Mix all the spices well and add tomato ketchup.
    
21. Add Green chili sauce and Soya Sauce to this.
    
22. Then add chicken pieces from pressure cooker and mix well.
    
23. Saute the pieces nicely till it mixes with the flavors well.
    
24. Now add the water from the pressure cooker itself. This will serve as chicken stock for this gravy.
    
25. Add more plain water if necessary depending upon the consistency desired.
    
26. Check salt, chili and sourness. Adjust the flavors well as desired.
    
27. Now put the flame on low and let the gravy cook for about 10 minutes.
    
28. Lastly, add chopped coriander leaves and mix.
    
29. Turn off the flame. Yummy Chicken curry is ready to serve hot.
    
30. Use onion slices for garnishing.
31. Serve with rice and/or chapatti with some pickle and papad.

Important Note:

1. The quality of chicken matters a lot for taste. Buy Desi Chicken which gives a very yummy taste with Indian spices.
   
2. The flavor of fresh herbs add nice aroma and exotic taste. Sprinkle some mint leaves along with coriander leaves. The taste of mint goes very nicely with chicken.
   
3. In this recipe, as we are adding tomatoes, lemon juice and soya sauce , one should take care regarding the sourness and salt. Balance the amount of sourness and salt in the end.
   
4. In this recipe I have sauted the veggies first and then ground half of the veggies into paste. So that there is veggies in the curry as well as gravy. If you prefer to have only gravy, you can have all the veggies ground or else just add tomato puree instead of chopped tomatoes and add chopped Capsicum.
   
5. To make the gravy creamy, there are various ingredients people use. Some use cream, coconut milk, coconut paste, cashew/ almond paste.
   
6. If you like nice fried pieces of chicken, instead of pressure cooking chicken, you can first medium fry chicken pieces in oil and then add it to the veggies being sauted.
   
7. Prefer dark Soya Sauce over ordinary Soya Sauce. The flavor is stronger in this sauce.

I have tried not to have very fatty gravy and so I have used very basic ingredients. My recipe is also not very chili , it has a nice balance of tangy and chili flavors. Some people do not like capsicum in gravies, they can avoid capsicum. This will taste best with Desi Chicken. As I have added chicken stock, it gives a thickness to the gravy. If you store broth ( boild water of meat and veggies), it can go into this nicely.