Chicken in a Spicy Red Sauce

This dish of chicken and potatoes in a delicious red tomato sauce spiced up with cumin, cardamom, may be served with plain rice or with any Indian or Middle Eastern bread. I use canned chopped tomatoes.

Ingredients

2 kg chicken pieces

1 teaspoon salt or to taste

Freshly ground black pepper

7 good-sized cloves garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped

2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and coarsely chopped

1/4 cup vegetable oil

Generous pinch ground asafoetida

Optional 1 teaspoon cumin seeds

2-inch stick cinnamon

6 cardamom pods

5 whole cloves

3 dried, hot red chiles or Green chillies

½ teaspoon ground turmeric

1 can diced / chopped tomatoes

3 – 4 potatoes, peeled and cut into ½ inch chunks

Instructions

• Sprinkle the chicken pieces lightly with salt black pepper and set aside.

• Put the garlic and ginger into the container o- a with 3 tablespoons water, and blend to a paste

• Put the oil in a wide, non-stick pan and set over medium high heat. When the oil is hot, put in the asafoetida 10 seconds later, put in the cumin seeds. Wait for 10 seconds and put in the cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, cloves and chillies. Stir for a few seconds until the large spices begin to turn darker. Now put in the garlic and ginger. Stir and fry it for about 2 minutes. Put in the chicken, turmeric and fry for another minute. Now put in tomatoes, potatoes, 1 ¼ cups water, and salt. Bring to a boil. Cover, turn the heat to low and simmer till cooked. Approximately 25 minutes.

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