Chicken curry for the uninitiated
A delicious Bengali style chicken curry cooked with minimal ingredients and using the simplest techniques. The best recipe for people who intend to not burn the kitchen down.
Servings Prep Time
4 1minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
20minutes 59minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 1minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
20minutes 59minutes
Ingredients
For marination of chicken
For cooking
Instructions
For Marination
  1. Wash and clean the chicken
  2. Marinate the chicken with the ingredients mentioned above and refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour
For the dish
  1. Heat oil in a pressure cooker
  2. Add garlic, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaf and fry it until the fragrance of the spices releases
  3. Add chopped onions and fry on medium heat till golden brown
  4. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, cumin powder and coriander powder. Fry for 1-2 minutes on medium heat
  5. Add the chicken and fry for at least 10 minutes until the chicken is coated with the spice mixture.
  6. Add 1 1/2 cups of boiling water and close the pressure cooker.
  7. Put it on high flame until it whistles once or maximum twice
  8. Switch to medium flame and cook till 3-4 pressure cooker whistles.
  9. Switch off the flame.
  10. After the pressure releases, open the lid and serve the curry with hot steamed rice