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

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bengali chicken curry or murgir jhol. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Bengali chicken Curry or Murgir jhol is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re 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. Every Bengali family loves their Murgir Jhol.

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

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

This is pure Indian home cooking. Murgir jhol is curry with Bengali ingredients. There's nothing earth shattering in this recipe. Bengali homemade chicken curry or murgir jhol and bhaat is the favorite sunday lunch for almost all bengali families.

Step by Step 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. Murgir Jhol is a popular Chicken dish prepared in Bengali household especially on Sunday. The gravy of the chicken curry is thin and runny hence called 'Jhol'. Bongs are addicted to their Sunday special Bengali Chicken Curry which is they love to call 'Robibarer.

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