Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken bharta in bengali style. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken bharta in bengali style using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style:
- Prepare 800 grams boneless chicken
- Get 2 eggs hard boiled
- Make ready 2 big onions thinly sliced
- Make ready 1 small tomato pureed
- Prepare 4-5 green chilies
- Get 1 tablespoon grated ginger
- Make ready 1 1/2 tablespoon grated garlic
- Make ready 10-15 cashew nuts soaked in water
- Make ready 2 tablespoons charmagaz
- Prepare 150 grams hung curd whisked
- Take 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon Punjabi garam masala powder
- Get 1/2 tablespoon tandoori masala (optional)
- Prepare 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Prepare 2-3 bay leaves
- Take to taste Salt
- Get 1 inch cinnamon stick broken into pieces
- Take 1/4 teaspoons cumin seeds
- Make ready 4-5 cloves
- Prepare 1 tablespoon kasoori methi/ dried fenugreek leaves crushed
- Prepare 4 tablespoons oil
- Get 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
Kolkata style Chicken Bharta or Chicken Bhorta probably took the essences from the North Indian "Bharta" and Bangladesh "Bhorta" to make itself That was for the first time I left a metro city to study Rural Management and was based in a suburb of West Bengal, Kalyani. I used to back to the city at. Chicken Bharta was prepared last weekend in our lunch. The recipe is Punjabi inspired Bengali dish.
Steps to make Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style:
- Cut the chicken in long thin strips.
- Make a paste of the soaked cashew nuts and charmagaz.
- Take a kadhai and heat oil in it. Temper the oil with cumin seeds, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
- Once you get the aroma of the spices, add the sliced onions.
- Saute them till they turn translucent.
- Make some space in the centre and add pureed tomato, ginger and garlic paste and continue sautéing
- After about 2-3 minutes add the turmeric powder, cumin powder, green chilies, red chilli powder and salt.
- Now, add the chicken and saute them for 2 minutes.
- Cover and cook on medium flame. Gradually you will see that lots of water oozes out from the chicken. Therefore, you need not add any water.
- Meanwhile cut the boiled eggs in thin slices. We will use this egg white later for garnishing. Mash the egg yolks and keep aside.
- Once the chicken is cooked and you see oil leaving the sides of the pan, add Punjabi garam masala powder, tandoori masala, hung curd, paste of cashew nuts and charmagaz, kasoori methi, mashed egg yolk along with ½ cup of water.
- Let it simmer for 5-6 minutes till it reaches the desired consistency.
- Garnish the chicken bharta with coriander leaves and egg white rings.Serve the chicken bharta with naan, roomali roti or lachha paratha.
A very tasty shredded (pulled) chicken preparation which is famous throughout India. There is a famous restaurant in Kolkata called Honey-Da-Dhaba. They make this famous Chicken Bharta. I had heard a lot about it but never really got a chance to have it. The good folks at the dhaaba revealed their secret in a cookery show (available here).
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