Make this restaurant style Pakistani chicken white karahi recipe with homemade spices. Bone in chicken prepared with white curry masala is best to serve for dinner. The creamy, savory and thick curry bite of chicken kadai wrapped in a tandoori naan make all the difference to enjoy dinner time with family.
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Preparing most popular chicken white karahi that people love to eat across the world. One of the best Pakistani chicken curry prepared in a wok (karahi).
It's a famous street food dish served with tandoori naan. The texture of the dish shows creamy white gravy and tender chicken cooked with white masala spices. Extremely delicious in taste and aroma compels to eat again and again.
Pakistani cuisine is rich with so many delicacies and this one is the most demanding dish for special events. People love to add in wedding menu, and family get together. Best to serve on dinner or lunch. Traditionally it's been served hot in a sizzling wok that makes it more tempting.
What is Chicken White Karahi?
Chicken cooked in a wok (karahi) with thick, creamy and velvety white curry masala is famous as chicken white karahi . In Pakistani cuisine, it's been emerged as the most demanding dish in 15 years.
Making of white chicken karahi is the idea comes from Pakistani street style cooking where the street chefs make it quickly on high flame using a big wok. It's drooling to watch the making of live karahi. Due to cook on high heat, chicken is properly tendered and curry masala cooked with ghee makes a perfect taste.
People from Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar makes it in different style according to the regional taste. Here I am sharing Karachi food street style chicken white karahi recipe that will add taste to your dining. It's a street-style recipe cooked on high heat to make the same flavor as you eat in a hotel, dhaba, or restaurants.
Many tourists who visit Pakistan and India ask about the taste of chicken karahi.
like; is it so spicy? sour? or oily?
Well, it's spicy and little oil and sour in taste. The level of spice and oil can easily manage to make it healthy as per the choice.
This recipe is also famous as white karahi gosht if you make it with mutton/lamb or beef.
Why This Recipe Works
You know the best thing about this recipe, it doesn't require so many ingredients to cook. and have entirely different taste compared with red tomato gravy chicken karahi.
- It's simple, easy and one pan recipe.
- Prepare with minimal spices.
- The creamy gravy of this recipe makes it different with other curry recipes.
- Make the best combo with rice and naan.
- Always recommended for family dinner.
Must try: Lahori Chicken Karahi | Peshawari Charsi Karahi | Mutton Karahi
Ingredients
Chicken: Chicken with bones and boneless both can be used to make this recipe. Bonein chicken makes a perfect taste just because of the broth of bones.
Cooking Oil/Ghee: Use any vegetable oil or ghee to make this recipe.
Ginger Garlic Onion: Prefer to use fresh paste of ginger garlic and onion. Blend it together with little water to make a fine paste.
Green Chilies: Yes, it's vital to use this as spice agent. Make sure the thin green chilies are more spicy compared with thick green chilies (moti hari mirch).
Whole Garam Masala: Used green cardamom, black pepper, cinnamon sticks, and cloves.
Seasoning: salt, and white peppers (dakni mirch).
Fresh Cream: Used to add a creamy, milky and sour taste in curry.
Butter: A cube of butter can do wonder to enhance the taste.
Julienne Ginger: Garnish with thinly sliced ginger.
How to Make Chicken White Karahi
Prepare Ginger Garlic and Onion Paste
In a blender, add garlic, ginger, green chilies, and onion. Make a thick paste by adding water.
Cooking Karahi Masala
In a pan, heat up 1 tablespoon oil or ghee and add whole garam masala to pop for few seconds. Add the blended paste and cook on high heat until it shows oil on the pan surface. Add chicken and cook on high heat until chicken changes the color. Continuously stir the chicken. Add yogurt and season with salt, and white pepper. Mix it well. Add 1 cup of water and again give it a good mix.
Cover and cook the chicken for about 25 minutes to get tender.
After 25 minutes, mix the karahi with spoon and turn the heat to low.
Add fresh cream and butter cook on low heat to mix up. After mixing the cream in karahi increase the temperature and cook on medium heat until it shows the oil on the pan sides.
Again, cover the pan for 5 minutes and cook on low heat.
Now the chicken white karahi is ready to serve. Don't forget to sprinkle white pepper and garnish with julienne ginger.
Best to serve with Roti, naan, or kulcha.
Chicken White Karahi [Video]
Here are quick and easy step to make this recipe. Watch the video to get quick direction.
Easy Tips To Make White Karahi
- Cook chicken on high heat until it changes the color to a slightly brown color.
- Don't forget to use white pepper powder (dakni mirch).
- The addition of cream enhance the taste of curry.
- Don't forget to add salted butter to have a true taste of kadai.
- Properly cook as it shows gravy and floating oil on sides. If it watery then cook on high heat to get the desired result.
Serving Ideas
It's a main course dish that can be serve with tandoori roti, chapati, naan or rice. I love to serve with garlic butter rice as it makes the best combo.
To make a complete platter for dawat, it's best to add shami kabab or other kabab. recipes.
Here are some more ideas to add in your menu that pair up well with white chicken karahi.
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Q & A
Yes, you can! follow the same recipe only skip the cream. You can add a cube of butter that will enhance the taste and also add a lustrous look to karahi gravy.
It's a spice blend of garam masala, ginger garlic powder, white pepper, salt and mango powder. If you have this masala, you can directly add it to make white karahi recipe.
Alternatively, you can make this spice seasoning at home and store it in pantry for 6 months.
When you make white karahi use it instead of using all the spices individually. In store bought, white karahi masala, mango powder is also used to add a sour taste in karahi.
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Chicken White Karahi Recipe
Equipment
- Wok
Ingredients
- 600 g Chicken – 600 gms
- 1 tablespoon Oil – 1 Tbsp
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 1 big Onion
- 4 inches Ginger
- 7 Green Chilies
- 20 Black Pepper Kali Mirch
- 4 inches Cinnamon Darchini 4″
- 6 Cloves Laung
- 3 Green Cardamom Hari Illaichi
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon White Pepper Powder Dakni Mirch
- 1 cup Yogurt – 1 Cup
- 1 cup Water – 200 ml
- 1 cup Fresh Cream – 1 Cup
- 2 teaspoon Butter – 2 Tsp
- Julienne Ginger Bareek Kati Adrak
Instructions
- In a blender, add garlic, ginger, green chilies, and onion.
- Make a thick paste by adding water.
- Now in a pan, heat up 1 tablespoon oil.
- Add whole garam masala and let it pop for few seconds.
- Now add the blended ginger garlic and onion paste and cook on high heat until it starts to show oil on pan surface.
- Add chicken and cook on high heat until chicken changes the color
- Continuously stir the chicken to cook evenly.
- Now add yogurt, salt, and white pepper.
- Mix well until chicken shows a one-tone curry texture and oil gets visible on the pan.
- Add 1 cup of water and give it a good mix.
- Cover and cook for 25 minutes to tender chicken.
- After 25 minutes, mix the karahi.
- Add fresh cream and butter cook on low heat to mix up.
- After mixing the cream in karahi increase the temperature and cook on medium heat until it shows the oil on the sides.
- Cover the pan for 5 minutes and cook on low heat.
- After that, the chicken karahi is ready to serve.
- Sprinkle white pepper and julienne ginger and serve with Roti, naan, or kulcha.
Video
Notes
- Cook chicken on high heat until it changes the color to a slightly brown color.
- Don't forget to use white pepper powder (dakni mirch).
- The addition of cream enhances the taste of curry.
- Don't forget to add salted butter to have a true taste of Kadai.
- Properly cook as it shows gravy and floating oil on the sides. If shows water then cook on high heat to get the desired result.
Hinz
Pakistani chicken white karahi restaurant style. Family favorite and easy recipe to make at home.
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Here is homemade chicken white karahi with homemade spices. How do you make your white karahi?