Chicken Handi – Easy to make Recipe – Chicken Handi is a traditional recipe that is made in an earthen clay pot /traditional clay pot. The chicken is incredibly tender and injected with flavour from a tomato and yogurt base and  aromatic spices.

chicken handi

This is a easy recipe that is highly adaptable. It is usually made in an earthenware pot but because I don’t have one of those, I just make it in a wok or normal pot.
This is a delicious recipe where the chicken is cooked in yoghurt and tomato and a little cream is added towards the end too.

ingredients in chicken handi


Oil and Ghee – A combnation of the 2 works well.
Ginger, Garlic and Green Chilli Paste – Use fresh, pastes or frozen.
Chicken – Boneless, skin off Chicken Breast or Thighs.
Tomatoes – 4 small fresh Tomatoes or pureed Plum Tomatoes.
Spices – Cumin seeds, Turmeric Powder, Red Chilli Powder, Black Pepper, Salt, Coriander Powder.
Yoghurt – a creamy Yoghurt like Greek Yoghurt
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Cream – Single Cream or Double Cream.

how to make chicken handi

The full list of ingredients along with quantitites can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of the page –

Pour in Tomatoes and cook for 10 minutes.

Add Cumin Seeds, Ground Turmeric powder,  Black Pepper Powder, Red Chilli Powder, Ground Coriander powder and Salt and stir fry on high for 2 minutes.

Add Chicken pieces back in. Cook covered on medium/low for 5 minutes.

Pour in Yoghurt.