Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bengali style chicken rezala. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bengali Style Chicken Rezala is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Bengali Style Chicken Rezala is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bengali style chicken rezala using 24 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bengali Style Chicken Rezala:
- Make ready 1 kg Chicken
- Get 5 tbsp Ghee
- Take 2 tbsp Refined Oil
- Make ready 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- Take 1 cup Onion Paste
- Take 2 cup (1+1cup) Whisked Curd/Yogurt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Jaiphal/Nutmeg Powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Jayitri/Mace Powder
- Take 1 tsp Coriander Powder
- Take 1/2 tsp White Pepper Powder
- Take 1 tbsp Poppy Seeds
- Get 6 pc Cashew nuts
- Prepare 2 pc Bay Leaves
- Get 1 tsp Cloves
- Make ready 4-5 pc Green Cardamom
- Prepare 1 pc Cinnamon Stick
- Prepare 1 pc Black Cardamom
- Get 1 tsp Black pepper
- Prepare 3-4 Dried Red chilli
- Take 2-3 Green Chilli
- Take 1/2 tsp Kewra water
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Rose water
- Make ready 1 drop Mitha attar
- Get as required Salt,sugar,water
Steps to make Bengali Style Chicken Rezala:
- Marinate Chicken:- Wash the chicken pieces well and place it in a bowl. Add 1 cup of Onion paste,2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste, 1cup of whisked curd/yogurt,1/2 tsp Nutmeg Powder,1/2 tsp Mace Powder,2tbsp Oil, Salt according to taste. Mix all the ingredients very well and marinate the chicken for at least 1 hour in the refrigerator.
- The gravy has to be very smooth for this dish. So it is essential all the ingredients are properly and finely blended.
- Make a smooth paste of Cashew nuts and poppy seeds with water and set aside in a bowl.
- Heat the kadhai with 5 tbsp Ghee. Once it is heated up, add the whole spices like cinnamon, bay leaves, cloves, green cardamom, black cardamom, dried red chilli, green chilli, black pepper and saute for 2 minutes.
- Add cashew nuts and poppy seeds paste and remaining 1 cup curd with whole spices and saute for another 5 minutes.
- Now add marinated chicken,salt, to taste, coriander powder, white pepper powder, water if required and give it a good mix. Now close it with lid and allow the chicken to cook on medium heat for 15 to 20 minuts until the chicken is tender and cooked.
- After 15minuts open the lid and sprinkle some sugar as per taste and give a slight mix. Adding sugar is totally an optional step. As we are Bengali we are using sugar almost each and every recipe. You can skip this step as well.
- Add keora water, rose water,mitha attar and gently stir once. Turn off the heat. Cover the lid. Let the aroma of these essence/water absorb into chicken.
- Chicken Rezala is ready now. Transfer the Chicken Rezala onto a serving plate and serve it along with Biryani/Pulao/Naan/Paratha/kulcha.
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