Lifestyle news desk, if you are fond of eating non-veg and prefer to eat cooked chicken in different ways, then you will definitely like this Bengali recipe. This chicken recipe is not only very easy to make but it is also very tasty to eat. So let us know how this tasty recipe is made without any delay.
Ingredients to make Bengali Chicken Rejala-
To marinate the chicken-
-1 kg chicken
1 Tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
-1 cup swept curd
To make paste-
-10-12 Cashew
-2 tablespoons white poppy
-4-5 green chillies
For curry-
-2 tablespoons oil
-4 tablespoons ghee
-3-4 cloves
-6-8 whole pepper
-2 inch piece of cinnamon
-2 whole green cardamom
-2 whole black cardamom
-4-5 whole dry red chili
-1 teaspoon white chili powder
-2 teaspoon salt
-1 teaspoon garam masala powder
-½ cup onion paste
-2-3 drop Kevada Essence
– 1 pinch saffron (soaked in 1 teaspoon of milk)
To marinate the chicken-
To marinate the chicken, first of all, mix chicken, ginger garlic paste and curd in a bowl and marine for one hour and keep it aside. Now soak cashews and poppy seeds in 2 tablespoons of warm water for 10 minutes. – Prepare a paste by adding soaked cashews and poppy seeds with water soaked in a blender.
To make chicken rajla curry-
– Heat 3 tablespoons of ghee and oil in a pan. When the ghee is hot, add cloves, black pepper, cinnamon, green cardamom, large cardamom and dry red chili to the pan and fry it for 10-15 seconds. After this, put the marinated chicken pieces in the pan and fry for 4-5 minutes while stirring continuously. Now add the remaining marinated paste, cashew and poppy paste, white chili powder, salt and garam masala powder and mix well. After this, add onion paste and 1 cup of water to the pan and mix well. Remove the flame of gas, cover the pan with a lid and cook for 40-50 minutes, until the chicken cooks well. – While cooking the chicken, keep stirring it in between. Finally add 1 tbsp ghee and Kevada Essence and mix the chicken well. Now test the salt and add saffron soaked in milk and serve it with hot bread or rice.
