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By Prerana Sharma,
Wow, CHICKENNNN…Chicken is my favorite…more than fish I can say 
There are at least 10 types of chicken recipe like Butter chicken, Kadai chicken, Goan chicken curry, Afgani chicken curry and so many more (My mouth is salvating while typing this ) if you are a Non Vegetarian, you can enjoy all these. But today I would like to share a recipe from Bengali kitchen, so lets start..
STEP 1 – First you have to marinate the chicken in salt (as per taste) and turmeric. Since me and my hubby loves chicken leg piece, so here I have used only leg pieces (6legs) but you can use whole chicken
Step 2.- Now lets arrange the ingredients. For this, make paste with 2spoon cumin (Jeera) and 21/2 spoon of coriander (dhania) seeds in your grinder. The smooth the paste, better will be the taste, afterall the dominant flavor going to come in this curry is due to jeera-dhania paste
Step3 – Now make a paste of 2big onions, 9big garlic cloves, 2inch ginger and chilly according to taste.
Step4 – Make paste of 2big tomatoes.
Step5 - Now chop 2 more onions and in a plate arrange the tadka items :- 1 small elaechi, 3-4 dalchini, 1 badi elaichi, 3-4 laung, 2 pinch of sugar (sugar is to give brown color to curry).
STEP 6.-Now heat 3-4 spoons oil in a non-stick kadai. Put the sugar 1st, when it caramelizes add the remaining items in the plate and after 30sec add chopped onions. Keep the flame medium.
Step7 -When the onions have became nice golden pink to brown, pour the onion paste. Stir continuously so that it don’t stick in the kadai.
Step8 - When the onion paste appears to be fried and it starts to leave oil around it, pour the jeera-dhania paste.
STEP 9.- Once the jeera-dhania paste gets fried and starts leaving oil place the chicken pieces slowly, and coat the chicken with the paste. Put 1 more spoon of salt and turmeric. Close the lid of the kadai for 5min.
STEP 10. When the chicken gets little fried-fried feel, add the tomato paste and mix it well with chicken.
Few of must be shocked why tomato paste so late, it should have been added after onion paste!! That’s because if tomato paste is added earlier, chicken takes more time to cook and many a times it becomes fiber type and chewing becomes difficult. While if tomato paste is added after chicken is added, it doesn’t interfere with the softening of chicken.
Now close the lid and let it cook for 10min on low flame till the raw smell of tomato completely disappears.
STEP 11. after 10min, add a glass of hot water (hot water is better to add instead of cold water because sudden decrease in temperature due to addition of cold water, lowers the taste of dish)
Close the lid, Let it boil in low flame for 10min more.
STEP 12- Sprinkle a pinch of garam masala and a bit of chopped dhania patta(coriander leaves/cilantro). Serve with roti / naan or hot white rice.
This is one simpel chicken recipe which I like to make every now and then
Which is your favourite chicken curry recipe?
Other Bengali Recipes :-
Bengali Desert Patishapta Recipe (Pancakes With Coconut Stuffing)
Potato Sabzi Potato with Poppy Seed (Khas-Khas) Recipe
Prawns Recipe Prawn Curry Recipe In Coconut Milk With Pictures
Wow Prerana.., this is so nice and simple…. we are vegetarians at home and I can totally try this with paneer…. thanks for sharing it
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yes i was thinking the same
are you vegan Anu?
no i am a eggiterian …i left chicken this year
can u believe it..it such a big sacrifice
Happy holi Anamika and all the lovely ladies here
Nice recipe Prerana
But I’m quitting on non-veg.
me too….ut y u quitting it??
I felt bad when I saw ppl carrying those meat pieces on cycles to the market and when chicken were taken in cages. And also the last time I had fish and when it was cut, we came to know the fish was pregnant. It felt really bad. So I’m satisfied with eggs now.
But Maha, eggs are also released when a hen become pregnant!!
And you kill her kid even before he takes birth!! Ye to jyada paap hua na…
Tum na vegan ban jayo
so what atleast we dont eat fish , prawns and many many things
ale..le..le…mere bacha bura maan gaya…sorry
who??
you
We are less sinful in that aspect
But the truth is, eggs are essential for me to be at least a bit healthy. My doc has asked me to take in a lot of eggs, milk and fruits.
my doc will never ask me for that but still i take all these three in good amount
Mine was a worst case scenario were I had to take trips
Btw you eat healthy good for you 
yes i am addicted to good food..i just cant have oily food..and i hate myself when i eat unhealthy food..though i am not the slimmest person around but somewhere the food shows in my activity and all
and good food habbits goes long way..
u wont beleive but i keep switching to things.. for instance i drink bottle gourd juice, ave dates, amla juice, aloevera, fenugreek seeds and what not every now and then
I would never touch any of those except probably fenugreek! But I don’t have junk food or oily stuff. My appetite is pretty much low and so it is important to me to eat healthy in whatever little amount of food I have. Fruits are my biggest supplements. And I consume a lot of green leafy vegetables.
And its not slim or fleshy that matters. Its just how healthy you are and you score on that
yup that is true at the end of the day nothing should pain
Thats why we honour the hen by eating the egg
wow prerna, this looks really delicious!!! will definitely check it out. thanks for the step by step instructions and the pics. and anamika, hi there, my new internet connection is a lil bit better than the old one. So, i will be putting up more posts and hey love the new layout too. For the entrance this time, I did get in, but won’t be getting the pg that I want. So, this time I have joined a coaching class(am gonna repeat) rather than sitting at home and studying. do gimme some support by visiting my blog yaar, i know I wont be putting too many posts as i used to, but I will definitely try, as this is a stress buster. anyway take care
hey Anju..u know i am always there for you..and study hard
I waaaant thiss…those legs look…ummmm…sexyyy…..
hahhaha…how can chicken loook sexy
this reminds me of an incident…a bunch of my guy and girl friends had gone for dinner and a friend ordered “Mumtaaz ki Taang” , a chicken dish…after finishing the dinner, when he saw the bill he could not find “Mumtaaz ki Tanng” in the bill…he got mad at the waiter for goofing up the order…after coming out he was still fretting “all the while i thot i was relishing on mumtaaz ki taang and it turned out to be ‘shahjahan murg’..cant feel ‘gay-er’ than this ” …. lol
Mumtaz taang..wonder what it is??
was chick very beautiful
Aye…u put up this Holi wali background….
HAPPY HOLI !!!
yup Kaps did it..i elliked it …did u like it?
Yo baby…me loued it
this will also make a good egg curry… haina anu & maha?
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Anks you are a respite for us
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wow .is the recipe coming soon?
you wudn’t believe it, but i googled the recipe….
new age woman!
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i know..u r perfect new age mom too
aww thanks anu…!
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Oh yes! You really are good at adapting recipes Anks
Thanks a lot 
i have no choice
hey thanks Maha!
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oh i like the new baqckground
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thanks thanks..this is holi special .
will u be playing this time with yur little one?
not really… she is too little na…
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i know but it must be a great feeling…
me love chicken too more than fish
and chicken legs are so saxxy 
he he 
i make this chicken every sunday at my home 
taste increases many folds 
prerana try using a bit of khas khas + green chilli paste to it
oh gosh !!!
chicken legs sexy ….not again …!!!
ya Shreya, i remember, my mashi once said me, posto kacka lonka & gol morij-er paste last-a dile darun lage
whaacchh? please translate
lolz…..
i think i wont be able to survive with such chicken crazy bengalis out here ..
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Ahh yummy! look so delicious..but my cooking sucks. somebody teach me how to cook
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you can follow prerana recipes she is fab