Hyderabadi Methi Chicken Curry or Methi Murgh – is a delicately spiced, creamy and delicious curry of chicken cooked with fresh fenugreek or methi leaves. Stunningly tasty and super quick, a perfect winter dinner to keep you warm! Here is how to make methi chicken recipe step by step.
Methi Chicken malai is very creamy, beautiful and tasty chicken gravy recipe. Easy to make and elegant to serve.
Unlike, the other kormas, saalan and do pyaaza recipe with a reddish texture, this fenugreek chicken recipe adds a great kick to the interior as well as the exterior of the dish. My son, being a little fussy about eating green vegetables, this methi chicken indeed makes we both happy in every way.
A lovely methi chicken masala, is indeed ready to top your dish list. And if you are really bored of eating the same old chicken curry then this fresh methi murgh without a doubt will win your hearts.
You are all set to serve this fenugreek chicken curry with some butter naan or pudina paratha, nice steamed rice and salad on the side, at your table. Be it a get together or a formal family dinner or just a casual weekend meal.
Top tips to make best methi chicken curry
- This recipe calls for the use of fresh methi or fenugreek leaves. But, if you do not have the access to fresh ones, then you can surely go on ahead to add dried fenugreek or kasuri methi.
important tip : Use only 3 tablespoons of kasuri methi for 1 kg of chicken measure. Kasuri methi has strong aroma and flavour, adding it too much will overpower the taste giving bitterness to the dish. - To make methi chicken dry, do not add any water to the recipe. Allow chicken to cook in its own juices.
- You can skip adding cream to the recipe. However, adding cream will only do good giving rich and restaurant like flavour to the dish.
- Always add 1 teaspoon of cornflour to the whisked curd as it will help avoiding the curd to separate or curdle.
What Ingredients do we need to make methi chicken?
I have used chicken on bones to make this enticing methi chicken malai. But, you can use boneless chicken also, if you do not prefer the flesh on bones.
- Then, we need fresh fenugreek leaves, tomatoes, onions, ginger paste, garlic paste and green chilies. Green chilies can either be chopped finely or use paste, no harm at all.
- The other flavour enhancers are yogurt, red chili powder, coriander and turmeric powder, garam masala powder, lemon juice, sugar, cream, oil and of course salt
The whole spices that goes in methi murgh are cumin seeds mace blade, green cardamom, cloves and black peppercorns
How to make methi chicken recipe step by step photos (Methi Murgh)
Firstly, heat oil in a pan. When oil heats up, add cumin seeds and allow it to crackle.
Now, once the aroma of fried cumin releases, then add green chili paste and whole spices.
Then, add chopped onions and saute on high heat for a minute. Fry until they just pick the golden colour. At the same time, be sure to not to over brown the onions.
Now, add chicken, tomatoes, ginger garlic paste, saute them well on high heat for 3-4 minutes
Once the chicken sautéed well, reduce the heat and add whisked yoghurt. Immediately stir well till the yoghurt combines well.
Then, add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt and water. Cover and simmer for 6-7 minutes or until the chicken is tender.
Add fenugreek leaves (methi), lemon juice, and cook on high for another 4-5 minutes
Finally, add cream, mix and cook for another 30secs. Absolutely delicious Hyderabadi Methi chicken is ready to serve.
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Methi Chicken
Ingredients
To Prepare Methi Chicken
- 1 kg Chicken cut in medium sized pieces
- 2 Cups Fenugreek Leaves coarsely chopped
- 175 g Yogurt whisked
- 3 Tomatoes finely chopped
- 2 Onions finely chopped
- 1 tbsp Garlic Paste
- 3/4 tbsp Ginger Paste
- 3-4 Green Chillies crushed or chopped
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 1 and 1/2 tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder
- 1 and 1/2 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tsp Cumin powder
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Garam masala powder
- 2 tsp Lemon juice
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1/3 cup Cream
- 5 tbsp Oil
- Salt as per taste
- Water as required
Whole Spices To Cook Methi Chicken
- 4 green cardamom
- 8-10 black pepper corns
- 4-5 cloves
Instructions
How To Make Methi Chicken Malai
- Firstly, heat oil in a pan.
- While the oil gets heated, add cumin seeds and allow it to crackle. Now, once the aroma of fried cumin releases, then add chopped or crushed green chili and all the whole spices and cook for few seconds
- Then, add chopped onions and saute on high heat for a minute. Fry until they just pick the golden colour. At the same time, be sure to not to over brown the onions.
- Add chicken, tomatoes, ginger garlic paste, saute them well on high heat for 2-3 minutes.
- Once the chickens sautéed well, reduce the heat and add whisked yoghurt. Immediately stir well till the yoghurt combines well.
- Then, add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt and water. Cover and simmer for 6-7 minutes or until the chicken is tender
- Add fenugreek leaves (methi) and lemon juice and cook on high for another minute or 2.
- Finally, add cream, garam masala powder and sugar. Mix everything together and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Delicately spiced delicious Methi Chicken is ready to serve.
Notes
- To avoid splitting of yogurt, you can add a teaspoon of cornflour and whisk well before adding it to recipe.
- If you want thin gravy, then more warm water can be added. You can also use boneless chicken to make this recipe.
- To make methi chicken dry, do not add water to the recipe and allow the chicken to cook in its own juice until it reaches its required consistency.
- Adjust the spiciness of the gravy as per your liking
ST says
Hi! Thank you for such detailed recipe. We made this last night and it turned out so fantastic! We did not have to change a single detail in the recipe. This is going to be a regular for a while.
The flavors were scintillating to the sense, the mix of cream really added just a rich taste to it.
Thank you!
Karina DSouza says
Thank-you very much Farrukh. The chicken was quite tasty even though I left out cream. My family enjoyed it.
Farrukh Aziz says
Thank you Karina, am glad you and your family loved it 🙂
banazer noor says
I TRY LAST NIGHT MY KIDS SAY YUMMY.
Mani says
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Samantha Bartlett says
HI there, so excited to try this today. We have young people eating this, I am always too scared to put in all the chilies, If I want it mild, can I cut down the chilies and will it still work? Thanks so much for sharing this!
Farrukh Aziz says
Hi Samantha,
You are welcome to my blog. 🙂
Yes, sure thing, you can reduce the chilies to suit to your taste or you can also use the milder ones.
Good Luck 🙂
Regards
Farrukh
Tanya says
The whole spices aren’t mentioned in the ingredients list, I identified them through the picture.
Farrukh Aziz says
Hi Tanya,
Kindly check through again, it has clearly been mentioned in the content as well as the recipe card. 🙂
Thanks.
Regards
Farrukh
Saima Qureshi says
This is just perfect and the way we want it..
Anusuya Datta says
Hi,
Sounds a simple and straightforward recipe. Perfect for Sunday Lunch. Can I use VInegar if I don’t have lemon.? And milk instead of cream?
Thank you
Caroline D' cruz says
Hi, Made your recipe today. Turned out awesome. Everybody loved it. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Farrukh Aziz says
Thank you so much Caroline, am glad everyone loved it 🙂
Deepali K says
Tried this recipe and it reminded me of my native back in India. We used to make it exactly as this one tasted.
Farrukh Aziz says
I am happy to know this methi chicken reminded you of your homwtown. Thank you 🙂
Kanika Dutta says
I can imagine the taste through pictures. Great work ma’am, very nice recipe.
Farrukh Aziz says
Thank you very much Kanika 🙂
Helen says
Indian dishes are new to me. Do you put the whole spices in a cheesecloth bag so you can take them out at the end or do you put them in the dish loose? I would think biting into a peppercorn or cardomon seed would not be a good thing. Also, does ‘nos’ mean ‘each’? Thanks for your help I’d really like to try this recipe.
Farrukh Aziz says
hi Helen,
You are Welcome! 🙂
yes, sometimes we do put whole spices in the cheesecloth and cook,specifically when we do any special rice pilaf (Yakhni) or any specific mughlai curries, but not for all the dishes 🙂
Nos refers to number ( like 5nos refers to 5 cardomom or chilies or anything).
Regards
Foon Lam says
Looks delicious. Will definitely try cooking it. Thanks for sharing.
Farrukh Aziz says
sure! do let me know the feedback on how it turned out 🙂
I ma sure you will like it
Thanks
Regards
anadimae says
This looks like something I might be able to do~! I would love to learn this kind of cooking and your explanations for this recipe are so appreciated. It looks delicious~!
Farrukh Aziz says
Thank you so much:)
Kankana says
I like methi more than palak and with chicken it’s such a treat. Love the color of your dish btw!
Sahmina Abbas says
When do we add tomatoes????
Farrukh Aziz says
It is added along with the chicken 🙂
Preeti says
Can we use dried fenugreek leaves instead of fresh ones?
priyalall says
That's a nice and simple chicken dish…Will definitely make this..Sunday lunch menu decided 🙂