Bengali Chicken Curry
Bengali Chicken Curry

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, bengali chicken curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This chicken curry recipe yields tender chicken pieces in a hot, flavourful, stew-like jhol (curry). It is so versatile that it can be eaten with rice/roti. Bengali chicken curry done restaurant style brings home cooking to the next level.

Bengali Chicken Curry is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Bengali Chicken Curry is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bengali chicken curry using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Bengali Chicken Curry:
  1. Get 1 kg chicken breasts
  2. Prepare 2 onion, pureed
  3. Get 1/2 kg potatoes, parboiled, peeled
  4. Make ready 2 cup tomato paste
  5. Get 1 tbsp garam masala
  6. Make ready 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
  7. Prepare 3 clove garlic
  8. Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
  9. Prepare 3 dry red chilli
  10. Make ready 200 grams mustard oil
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp red chilli powder
  12. Take 1 tbsp turmeric powder
  13. Prepare 1 bunch fresh coriander leaves
  14. Take 2 bay leaf
  15. Make ready 1 salt
  16. Take 1 dash sugar

Every Bengali family loves their Murgir Jhol. It was a ritual back home to cook this Chicken Curry or. Bengali chicken curry is a famous recipe from Bengali cuisine. The recipe mainly involves chicken and some vegetables and some common spices like coriander powder, garam masala.

Instructions to make Bengali Chicken Curry:
  1. First marinate the chicken breast pieces with salt and turmeric powder. Close the container and store in freezer for 1 hour.
  2. Parboil the potatoes and peel them. Then cut them into halves.
  3. In a separate bowl, add the onion puree, ginger garlic paste and tomato paste one after another. Now add cumin powder and red chilli powder. Mix well and keep aside, lidded. This is the masala of the curry.
  4. Bring the oil to boil and fry the potatoes from step 2 till they just turn golden. Remove and place on paper towels. Maintain temperature of the oil.
  5. To the hot oil, add the garlic cloves. Take care as to not burn them. Lightly toast cumin seeds, dry red chillies, bay leaves and sugar till oil turns red and fragrant.
  6. Add the masala from step 3 and keep frying till oil leaves the mixture and appears on the edges. This is a sure shot sign of the fact that the masala has been cooked.
  7. Add 2 cups of water and add the marinated chicken breasts. Bring it to boil and close the lid.
  8. After 5 minutes, open the lid off the vessel and add the fried potatoes. Close the lid and boil for another 10 minutes, preferably in a pressure cooker.
  9. Finally sprinkle garam masala and chopped coriander leaves. Your chicken curry is ready!! Nom. Nom.

Bengali homemade chicken curry or murgir jhol and bhaat is the favorite sunday lunch for almost all bengali families. This is really very simple and easy yet tasty recipe. An authentic and delicious chicken curry recipe that I had almost every day growing up. Also, if you want a smoother sauce, blend the onions and tomatoes before adding the chicken and potatoes. Doi Murgi aka Doi Chicken is a scrumptious substitute of Bengali Sunday Chicken Curry.

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