Chicken Kalya

Chicken Kalya is a perfect family dish, a stunner!. It’s so flavourful and so easy to make.

- Shahista Khan 

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken pieces (skin on or off,it’s your preference)
1 cup plain yoghurt
1 tbsp ginger and garlic paste
1/2 tspn turmeric
2 tspn kashmiri chilli powder
1 tspn ground cumin/jeera
1 tspn ground coriander/dhania
1 tspn salt
2 teaspoons tomato paste
1/2 can tinned tomatoes blended
Handful of dhania chopped
1 teaspoon jeera seeds
3 cinnamon sticks
2 elachie pods
3 tablespoons ghee
2 large onions sliced

Method:

1. Marinate the chicken with all the spices,cinnamon sticks, elachie, salt, yoghurt, dhania, tomato,tomato paste and ginger/garlic overnight. Place in fridge until ready to cook.

2. Set the Instant Pot PRO on sauté function, add in your ghee and onions until it caramelises and gets a lovely golden color.

3. Add the marinated chicken and allow to cook on sauté function for 10 minutes when kalya starts to thicken throw add a 1/4 cup of water in the bowl with last bits of marinate. Seal pot and allow to cook on high pressure for 15 minutes. Allow for natural pressure release.

4.  Whilst waiting for chicken to cook peel 2 potatoes and cut into wedges. Toss in oil and salt and place in your instant pot air fryer for 10 minutes on 180°c
Place potatoes into pot and cook on sauté (low)for 10 minutes more for gravy to thicken and potatoes to get soft soft.

Garnish with dhania and serve with naan and potatoes on the side.