Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, bengali chicken curry. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bengali Chicken Curry is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Bengali Chicken Curry is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Bengali cuisine has many delicious recipes. Food dishes of Bengal are famous throughout the world and Bengali Chicken Curry is one of the most-liked recipes from Bangladesh.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook bengali chicken curry using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bengali Chicken Curry:
- Make ready 1 kg chicken breasts
- Prepare 2 onion, pureed
- Prepare 1/2 kg potatoes, parboiled, peeled
- Take 2 cup tomato paste
- Make ready 1 tbsp garam masala
- Get 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Prepare 3 clove garlic
- Get 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 3 dry red chilli
- Take 200 grams mustard oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp red chilli powder
- Get 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 bunch fresh coriander leaves
- Prepare 2 bay leaf
- Prepare 1 salt
- Take 1 dash sugar
An authentic and delicious chicken curry recipe that I had almost every day growing up. If you don't have ginger-garlic paste, simply use half grated root ginger and half grated garlic. Also, if you want a smoother sauce, blend the onions and tomatoes before adding the chicken and potatoes. Sunday chicken curry Bengali style To all my lovely readers, thanks for being patient and I acknowledge that I have been missing in action for two weeks.
Steps to make Bengali Chicken Curry:
- First marinate the chicken breast pieces with salt and turmeric powder. Close the container and store in freezer for 1 hour.
- Parboil the potatoes and peel them. Then cut them into halves.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add 2 cups of water and add the marinated chicken breasts. Bring it to boil and close the lid.
- 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.
- Finally sprinkle garam masala and chopped coriander leaves. Your chicken curry is ready!! Nom. Nom.
So this week we brought you our family special chicken curry, the regular one, without any frills attached, very simple, basic and yet heart warming chicken curry. This chicken curry recipe yields tender chicken pieces in a hot, flavourful, stew-like jhol (curry). The defining characteristic of the Bengali-style chicken curry is the presence of potatoes, which, when cooked in the curry, become soft and succulent, full of all the juicy goodness of the curry. This chicken curry is a family favourite passed through the family. It is possible to substitute the potatoes for any vegetable that you like but personally I think the potatoes make the dish very tasty and filling.
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