Bengali Doi Chicken (Chicken Cooked in Spiced Yoghurt)

Ingredients

• 1 kg chicken
• 1 cup thick yoghurt
• 1 ½ tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 tbsp Rajah Chilli Powder
• 1 tsp Rajah Turmeric Powder
• 1/2 tsp Rajah Pepper Powder
• 1 tsp Rajah Cumin Powder
• 1 tsp Rajah Coriander Powder
• 1 tsp Rajah Garam Masala Powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 3 large onions, thinly sliced
• 1 onion, thinly sliced (to make birista/ crispy fried onion)
• 2-3 green chillies
• 2 Rajah Bay Leaves
• 2-3 Rajah Dried Red Chillies
• 2 x 1 inch Rajah Cinnamon/Cassia
• 4-5 Rajah Green Cardamoms (roughly pounder in pestle mortar)
• 4-5 Rajah Cloves (roughly pounder in pestle mortar)
• 1 black cardamoms (roughly pounder in pestle mortar)
• 1 tsp sugar/sweetener/jaggery
• 3-4 tbsp mustard oil/ veg oil for the curry, plus 1 tbsp for frying the onions