1. Clean chicken and marinate in ginger garlic paste for about 2 hours.
2. Grind together onion, green chillies, garlic flakes, coriander leaves, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, cumin, pepper corns and poppy seeds to make a fine paste.
3. Marinate chicken in this masala for about 5 hours or overnight.
4. Heat oil in a pan, add marinated chicken and salt and cook on slow fire till done.

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