Recipes
Bengali Style Chicken Curry Recipe
Prep Time | 1 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
Passive Time | 59 minutes |
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Ingredients
For marination of chicken
- 700 grams of chicken
- 1 tbsp of ginger paste
- 1½ tbsp garlic paste
- 1 cup finely chopped onions or onion paste
- cup finely chopped tomatoes
- 1½ Bay Leaf
- 2 tbsp Vinegar
- 3 tbsp lemon jucie
- 4 tbsp mustard oil
- Salt to taste
For cooking
- 1 tbsp mustard oil
- 4 cloves garlic
- 6 pieces Cloves
- 4 pieces Cardamom
- 1 stick of cinnamon
- 1 Bay Leaf
- 3/4 cup chopped onions
- 1/2 tbsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp chilli powder
- 1 tsp Cumin powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
Ingredients
For marination of chicken
For cooking
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Instructions
For Marination
- Wash and clean the chicken
- Marinate the chicken with the ingredients mentioned above and refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour
For the dish
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker
- Add garlic, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaf and fry it until the fragrance of the spices releases
- Add chopped onions and fry on medium heat till golden brown
- Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, cumin powder and coriander powder. Fry for 1-2 minutes on medium heat
- Add the chicken and fry for at least 10 minutes until the chicken is coated with the spice mixture.
- Add 1 1/2 cups of boiling water and close the pressure cooker.
- Put it on high flame until it whistles once or maximum twice
- Switch to medium flame and cook till 3-4 pressure cooker whistles.
- Switch off the flame.
- After the pressure releases, open the lid and serve the curry with hot steamed rice