Mustard Chicken Curry

Serves – 2-3

Ingredients

• Chicken – 500 gm (Remove the skin and wash pieces thoroughly under cold running water)
• Onion – 1 big (finely chopped)
• Tomato – ½ (finely chopped)
• Garlic cloves – 3 big (minced)
• Green chillies – 3 (minced)
• 1 tbsp butter + 1 tsp cooking oil
• Garam masala – 1 tsp
• Salt to taste

For marinade

• Yellow mustard powder – 1 and ½ tbsp
• Plain yogurt – 200gm
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Little salt

For tempering

• Cooking oil – 1 tbsp for tempering
• Black mustard seeds – 2 tsp

How to make mustard chicken curry?

• Combine all ingredients for marinade in a large bowl along with chicken pieces. Mix well and cover with plastic wrap. Allow it rest on a counter for an hour.

• Heat up a pan with butter and oil.

• Add onion and sauté till translucent. Add salt at this point to fasten the process of cooking the onion.
• Add minced garlic and green chillies and sauté for few seconds until raw smell from garlic goes away.

• Add tomato and cook until tender.

• Then add marinated chicken and ½ cup of water. 

• Mix and cook covered for 8-10 minutes until chicken is cooked completely. Stir in between.

• Lower down the heat and sprinkle garam masala. Mix and allow curry to simmer for couple of minutes.

• Till the time curry is simmering, heat up oil in a tadka pan. Add black mustard seeds and let them splutter nicely.

• Pour this tadka in a simmering curry and switch off the heat.
• Mix and serve mustard chicken curry hot with any Indian flatbread or plain rice. Enjoy! :)