🍗 Chicken Banjara – Yellow Gravy Base (Serves 4)

🔶 Gravy Base (Yellow Mughlai Masala)

Ingredients:

• Oil or ghee – 3 tbsp

• Green cardamom – 3

• Cloves – 3

• Bay leaf – 1

• Cinnamon – 1-inch

• Onion (sliced) – 2 medium

• Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tbsp

• Cashews – 12

• Water – as required

• Yogurt (thick, whisked) – 1/2 cup

• Turmeric – 1/2 tsp

• Yellow chili powder – 1 tsp (or 1/2 tsp regular chili + 1/2 tsp black pepper)

• Coriander powder – 1 tsp

• Salt – to taste

• Kasuri methi (crushed) – 1 tsp

• Fresh cream – 2 tbsp

• Saffron soaked in warm milk – optional (1 pinch in 1 tbsp milk)

🍗 Chicken Marination

Ingredients:

• Boneless chicken thighs – 500 g (cut into chunks)

• Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tbsp

• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp

• Hung curd – 1/4 cup

• Turmeric – 1/2 tsp

• Yellow chili powder – 1 tsp

• Garam masala – 1/2 tsp

• Mustard oil – 1 tbsp

• Salt – to taste

Method:

1. Mix all marination ingredients and let the chicken sit for at least 2 hours, preferably overnight.

   mix it with yellow gravy .