This is my first adventure with Instapot! I must say the process is similar to cooking in a pressure cooker, because the Instapot as they advertise is a pressure cooker and a multi cooker. Going back to Indian Cooking 101, there are three steps in Indian Cooking:
Sauteing–>Add meat/vegetables–>Cook Till Done
Pressure cooking helps speed up the process of cooking and that’s what the Instapot is all about, effortless cooking. I must add that pressure cooking is just one of the features of the Instapot, it has a lot of other cool features that I will be talking about in other posts.
Why am I talking about all of this?
I feel that understanding the tools that you use, make you a better user. I want to lay out the fact that the Instapot might not make your dishes suddenly taste better or help you in magically creating some new dishes, yes there are a lot of blogs/meal plan sites which promise that, but I believe that once you understand how this works you can make your true & tested recipes a lot faster and without much effort, which is indeed a great blessing,considering the busy lives we live, and yes we will definitely learn new things along the way. Well I don’t know about you but that’s my goal at least for now!
Without much ado here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
Chicken-500 gm / 1 lb (cut into medium pieces)
Garlic- 3 Cloves(Chopped)
Onion- 1 half(medium sized diced)
Tomato-1 half(medium sized diced)
Mustard seed-1/2 tsp
Cumin/Jeera-1/2 tsp
Urad dal-1/2 tsp
Green Chilies-2 whole
Red Chili powder-1/2 tsp (adjust according to spice level)
Coriander/Dhania Powder-1/2 tsp
Salt or to taste-1/2 tsp
Turmeric-1/2 tsp
Garam Masala-1/2 tsp
Oil-2 tbsp (I use vegetable oil)
Coriander – to garnish
Instructions:
1.Pour oil in the Instant Pot inner pot. Set to Saute on HI for about 5 minutes.
2.When the oil is hot add garlic, mustard seeds,cumin,urad dal,green chilies, tomato,and onion.
3.Add Chicken, chilli powder, turmeric, dhania powder and salt. Mix thoroughly.
4.Set the Instapot to Pressure cook on HI for 8 min.
5.Once the Instapot shows the “END” message. Wait for the Instapot to depressurize. The delicious chicken curry should be ready. Garnish with chopped coriander.
6.Enjoy!
Note: I used frozen chicken(defrosted) so I did not add any extra water, if using fresh chicken add 1/2 cup of water, the lesser the water the thicker the gravy.
Disclaimer: Please follow all the safety precautions listed by Instapot, follow the recipe at your own risk!