Handi Chicken is a North Indian delicious mildly spiced chicken cooked in a tomato, onions and cashew nut gravy, slow cooked in a ‘handi’.
This recipe which translates to ‘chicken in a clay pot’, is a traditional Northern Indian recipe. Its distinctive flavour comes from being cooked in an earthen clay pot, adding a unique taste to this delicious dish. ‘Handi’ is a copper or earthen clay pot used for cooking in India. If you do not have a ‘handi’ this recipe can be cooked in any heavy bottom pan.
Sometimes in restaurants ‘handi’ dishes are cooked in a pre-cooked gravy. I am sharing my recipe for making Handi Chicken from scratch without using a pre-cooked gravy base. You can cook it at home easily by following the steps in my easy recipe. The chicken is cooked so soft and tender that it melts in the mouth and the gravy is thick and creamy with layers of flavours. Handi Chicken can be prepared with boneless or on the bone chicken.
Other recipes you might like to try are Chicken 65, Methi Chicken, Buttermilk Chicken Wings, Champaran Chicken, Chilli Chicken Dry , Mangalorean Chicken Ghee Roast and Grilled Thai Chicken.
