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Bengali Chicken Curry. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add your Coriander powder, Cumin powder, Chili powder, Curry powder and Turmeric powder. Again stir frequently to avoid mixture burning.

Bengali chicken curry or murgir jhol is a traditional Indian curry characterized by its soupy consistency. 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 recipe has two parts: the first involves marinating the chicken, and the second, preparing the curry.

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a special dish, bengali chicken curry. One of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add your Coriander powder, Cumin powder, Chili powder, Curry powder and Turmeric powder. Again stir frequently to avoid mixture burning.

Bengali Chicken Curry is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It's easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Bengali Chicken Curry is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have bengali chicken curry using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Bengali Chicken Curry:

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

You can blend the fried onion and tomato before adding the chicken and potatoes if you want a creamier gravy. You can also garnish the Bengali chicken curry with freshly chopped coriander leaves. You can also fry the potatoes in oil beforehand and then add to the cooked curry to retain the texture. Chicken Rezala is a very famous Bengali recipe which has a Mughlai Origin.

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..

Quintessentially, it is a chicken gravy that is white, unlike other chicken curry dishes and is extremely flavorful with very delicate flavors. So, here is how to make it. Probably, Mughlai cuisine is one of the richest art forms of cooking. The Boatmen used to prepare a basic chicken curry for their need. That curry was somehow got popularized between the travelers as well.

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