Chicken Recipe
Chicken Bharta in Kolkata Style
Chicken
Bharta in Kolkata Style
Chicken Bharta is a Punjabi
preparation. Influence of Punjabi Cuisine over
Kolkata is huge. Chicken Bharta is one of the famous street foods to
restaurant food in Kolkata. Here boiled shredded or thinly sliced chicken
cooked in basic indian gravy made out of onion ginger garlic tomato. But the
richness of Chicken Bharta comes from cashew nut paste and sahi garam masala.
It is an easy and less time consuming chicken preparation. It very well goes
with Naan Roti or Paratha.
Ingredients:
Thinly sliced chicken pieces:
200 grams
Finely chopped onion: 1 small
Finely chopped tomato: 1 small
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tsp.
Yogurt: 1 1/2 tbsp.
Cashew nut paste: 1 tbsp.
Turmeric powder: A pinch
Kashmiri red chili powder: 1/3
tsp.
Sahi garam masala powder. 1/4
tsp.
Kasuri methi/ dried fenugreek leave:
1/2 tsp.
Salt & Sugar
½ tsp cumin seed
Butter
Fresh coriander leaves
Method:
1. Heat some
oil in a pan.
2. Temper
with cumin seeds. Then add thinly sliced onion pieces. Fry them light brown.
3. Add
ginger garlic paste or grated ginger garlic. Saute those for 1 min.
4. Then add
chopped tomato pieces, turmeric powder, Kashmiri red chili powder and salt. If
you feel the masala becomes dry then add some splash of water.
5. Braise
the masala until leaves the oil.
6. Then add
boiled shredded chicken or thinly sliced raw chicken.
7. Add salt
and sugar mix those properly and saute those for 3mins at medium to medium high
flame.
8. Then
lower the heat and add yogurt and sahi garam masala. Mix those. Cover and cook
it at low flame for 7 minutes.
9. After 7
minutes add kasuri methi/ dried fenugreek leaves powder, fresh coriander
leaves, and dollop of butter. Give it last mix and Serve it with Naan Roti or
Paratha. Enjoy J
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