Chicken Chaap (Bengali style chicken in thick poppy paste)
Chicken Chaap (Bengali style chicken in thick poppy paste)

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken chaap (bengali style chicken in thick poppy paste) using 17 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Chaap (Bengali style chicken in thick poppy paste):
  1. Take chicken (big leg pieces)
  2. Prepare poppy seeds
  3. Take cashews
  4. Take melon seeds (optional)
  5. Get big onion paste
  6. Get ginger garlic paste
  7. Get red chilli powder
  8. Get kashmiri red chilli powder
  9. Get cumin powder
  10. Prepare Shahi garam masala powder
  11. Make ready yoghurt
  12. Make ready soy sauce
  13. Take keora water
  14. Get dried red chillies
  15. Get Whole garam masala
  16. Prepare bay leaves
  17. Make ready Ghee
Steps to make Chicken Chaap (Bengali style chicken in thick poppy paste):
  1. Make shallow slits in the chicken leg pieces
  2. Make a thick paste of the cashews, melon seeds and poppy seeds
  3. Marinate the chicken with the onion paste, ginger garlic paste, powdered spices, soy sauce, poppy paste, yoghurt, ghee and a teaspoon of keora water for 2 hrs
  4. Shake the marinade off the chicken and shallow fry them in white oil or ghee
  5. Heat some white oil or ghee in the same pan if needed
  6. Add the dried red chillies.
  7. Add bay leaves and whole garam masala to temper the oil
  8. Add the fried chicken and the marinade
  9. Cook well until chicken is coated with the spices
  10. Add half a teaspoon of sugar and salt to taste
  11. Add water if needed until chicken is tender and cooked
  12. Once a thick consistenct of the gravy is reached, turn off the stove
  13. Add the rest of the keora water
  14. Sprinkle some Shahi garam masala powder on the top and garnish with dollops of ghee
  15. Serve hot with steamed rice or biryani

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