Ingredients:

• Chicken – ½ Kg
• Big Onion – 3 nos
• Tomato – 1 ½ nos
• Green Chillies – 2 nos
• Curry leaves
• Oil
• Mustard – ¼ tsp
• Methi seeds – ¼ tsp
• Cumin seeds – ¼ tsp
• Anise – ¼ tsp
• Cloves – 3 nos
• Cinnamon – a bark
• Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tbsp
• Chilli powder – 1 ½ tsp
• Garam masala – ¼ tsp
• Pepper powder – 1 tsp
• Coriander powder – 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Salt
• Lime juice – half from one of the lime

Preparation :

• Cut the chicken into medium pieces.  Half boil chicken with little turmeric powder, curry leaves and salt in a pressure cooker.
• Finely chop the onions and tomatoes. Slit the green chillies.
• Heat oil in a kadai. Put all the spieces one by one (Mustard, Methi seeds, Cumin seeds, Anise, Cloves, Cinnamon). Also put curry leaves.
• Now add onions, fry till it becomes golden brown. Then ginger-garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes.
• Add tomatoes. Stir till it becomes pulpy.
• Put Chilli powder, Coriander powder, Turmeric powder, Garam masala, salt and fry for a minute.
• Separate chicken and the stock. Put the chicken if needed pour little of the stock to it. Wait till its cooked.
• When the oil starts floating,  sprinkle Pepper powder and lime juice . Stir it for a minute.
• Garnish with coriander. Serve hot.

This recipe goes well with rice and rasam.