Chicken in Tomatoes and Garam Masala

Ingredients:
5 tbsp oil
¾ tsp cumin seeds
2 sticks cinnamon bark
6 cardamom pods
2 bay leaves
¼ tsp pepper corns
8 oz onions finely chopped
6-7 cloves of garlic chopped
2.5 cm knob of ginger finely chopped
450 g tomatoes chopped( or can)
1.5 kg chicken pieces skinned
1 ½ tsp salt
¼ -1/3 tsp cayenne pepper or to taste
½ tsp garam masala
Method:
Put your oil in a pan on medium high. Add spices, after a minute add onions, garlic, and ginger. Stir until the onions pick up black specks from spices.
Add the tomatoes to the pan, with the chicken, salt and cayenne. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer (low heat)for about 25 minutes until the chicken is tender…(check and stir from time to time)
Remove the cover, add the garam masala and cook for about another 5 minutes with the cover off as to drive off some of the liquid. (turn heat up). Remove the cinnamon sticks and bay leaves before serving.
(I found this recipe in Madur Jaffrey’s book “100 Weekday Curries”.