Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style
Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken bharta in bengali style. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken bharta in bengali style using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style:
  1. Prepare 800 grams boneless chicken
  2. Take 2 eggs hard boiled
  3. Make ready 2 big onions thinly sliced
  4. Make ready 1 small tomato pureed
  5. Make ready 4-5 green chilies
  6. Get 1 tablespoon grated ginger
  7. Take 1 1/2 tablespoon grated garlic
  8. Get 10-15 cashew nuts soaked in water
  9. Take 2 tablespoons charmagaz
  10. Prepare 150 grams hung curd whisked
  11. Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  12. Take 1 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
  13. Get 1 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
  14. Get 1/2 tablespoon Punjabi garam masala powder
  15. Make ready 1/2 tablespoon tandoori masala (optional)
  16. Take 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
  17. Get 2-3 bay leaves
  18. Take to taste Salt
  19. Get 1 inch cinnamon stick broken into pieces
  20. Make ready 1/4 teaspoons cumin seeds
  21. Make ready 4-5 cloves
  22. Get 1 tablespoon kasoori methi/ dried fenugreek leaves crushed
  23. Prepare 4 tablespoons oil
  24. Take 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves

There is a famous restaurant in Kolkata called Honey-Da-Dhaba. They make this famous Chicken Bharta. I had heard a lot about it but never really got a chance to have it. The good folks at the dhaaba revealed their secret in a cookery show (available here).

Instructions to make Chicken Bharta in Bengali Style:
  1. Cut the chicken in long thin strips.
  2. Make a paste of the soaked cashew nuts and charmagaz.
  3. Take a kadhai and heat oil in it. Temper the oil with cumin seeds, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
  4. Once you get the aroma of the spices, add the sliced onions.
  5. Saute them till they turn translucent.
  6. Make some space in the centre and add pureed tomato, ginger and garlic paste and continue sautéing
  7. After about 2-3 minutes add the turmeric powder, cumin powder, green chilies, red chilli powder and salt.
  8. Now, add the chicken and saute them for 2 minutes.
  9. Cover and cook on medium flame. Gradually you will see that lots of water oozes out from the chicken. Therefore, you need not add any water.
  10. Meanwhile cut the boiled eggs in thin slices. We will use this egg white later for garnishing. Mash the egg yolks and keep aside.
  11. Once the chicken is cooked and you see oil leaving the sides of the pan, add Punjabi garam masala powder, tandoori masala, hung curd, paste of cashew nuts and charmagaz, kasoori methi, mashed egg yolk along with ½ cup of water.
  12. Let it simmer for 5-6 minutes till it reaches the desired consistency.
  13. Garnish the chicken bharta with coriander leaves and egg white rings.Serve the chicken bharta with naan, roomali roti or lachha paratha.

Chicken Bharta was prepared last weekend in our lunch. The recipe is Punjabi inspired Bengali dish. A very tasty shredded (pulled) chicken preparation which is famous throughout India. Chicken Bharta Kolkata Style needs no introduction to a Bengali. We Bengali people are known for our love for mutton (apart from fish, rice and sweets).

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