Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol
Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol

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Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

This chicken curry recipe yields tender chicken pieces in a hot, flavourful, stew-like jhol (curry). It is so versatile that it can be eaten with rice/roti. Murgir Jhol is a light Chicken Curry prepared in almost all Bengali households and l is characterized red colour of the gravy and presence of potatoes.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bengali chicken curry or murgir jhol using 19 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol:
  1. Take 700 grams chicken
  2. Get 4 big sized potatoes
  3. Prepare 1 large tomato
  4. Take 4 slit green chillies
  5. Get 2 tablespoons ginger-garlic paste
  6. Make ready 1 cup chopped onion
  7. Make ready 1 tablespoon cumin powder
  8. Get 1 tablespoon Coriendar powder
  9. Make ready 1/2 tablespoon red chilli powder
  10. Make ready 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  11. Prepare to taste Salt
  12. Make ready 1 cup mustard oil
  13. Make ready 2 cloves
  14. Get 2 cups water
  15. Take 1 teaspoon garam masala powder
  16. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
  17. Take 2 cardamoms
  18. Take 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  19. Get 1 bay leaf

There's nothing earth shattering in this recipe. "Murgir Jhol" is quite a common dish in Bengali households that features often in Sunday lunch menu. This preparation contains light runny gravy or 'jhol' in which chicken and potatoes are immersed. Using big pieces of potatoes in meat curries is. Bengali homemade chicken curry or murgir jhol and bhaat is the favorite sunday lunch for almost all bengali families.

Instructions to make Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol:
  1. Wash the chicken pieces properly add some turmeric powder and little bit of salt.
  2. Heat oil in a Kadhai and fry the potato pieces with little bit of turmeric powder and salt.
  3. Potato is now golden colour then remove from dark and keep aside.
  4. Heat some more oil then add bay leaf, whole Garam Masala and cumin seeds. Fry on medium heat.
  5. Shallow fry in the chicken pieces and keep aside.
  6. Then and chopped onion and ginger garlic paste saute until the onion turns colour.
  7. Now add green chillies and tomator till the tomato become soft.
  8. Then add cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, Tomato sauce and required salt and stir for 2 minutes on medium flame.
  9. Now add the fried chicken and potato, mix well
  10. Properly mix chicken, potato and masala then add 3 cups of warm water and bring it to boil
  11. When boiling starts then cover the lid. Cook for 20 to 25 minutes on low flame
  12. After 25 mins open the lid and check if the chicken is well cooked and the consistency of the gravy
  13. Then chicken curry is almost done switch off the flame and add garam masala powder. Mix
  14. Serve Bengali style chicken curry or murgir jhol with your choice of steamed rice or roti.

I rushed to my pantry but found only chicken. And an exotic dish just flashed in my mind: Chicken Curry with steamed rice aka Murgir Jhol ar Gorom Bhat. Bengali chicken curry or murgir jhol is a traditional Indian curry characterized by its soupy consistency. It's prepared with chicken as the main ingredient, along with spices and vegetables such as potatoes, onions, ginger, garlic, turmeric, green chili peppers, yogurt, lemon juice, bay leaves, oil. Every Sunday is a funday in all-Bengali families as this is the day when they sit and enjoy their most leisurely meal of Mangsho'r jhol (chicken/mutton.

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