For the past few days, I have been liking to have authentic Bengali Chicken Recipes only. All of these are based on the lines of the Chicken Kosha – but again are clearly different from each other. A few Sundays ago I was trying to prepare Chicken Kosha – but instead of using sugar for the caramelization I thought of using either Gur(Jaggery) or Honey. I remember having cooked a Honey
Lemon Chicken sometime back and it was a excellent item. So, I used Honey again and prepared this
typical Bengali Dish. You can enjoy this dish with steamed rice.
Lemon Chicken sometime back and it was a excellent item. So, I used Honey again and prepared this
typical Bengali Dish. You can enjoy this dish with steamed rice.
Serves:4
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 1 hr
Ingredients:
- Chicken: 1 kg.
- Onion: 200 gms. Made into a fine paste.
- Ginger: 10 gms. Made into a fine paste.
- Garlic: 8-10 cloves. Made into a fine paste.
- Potato:2. Each weighing around 100 gms – sliced into 2 halves each.
- Green Chili: 5-6.Slit.
- Mustard Oil: 5 tbsp
- Honey: 2 tbsp
- Salt: To taste.
- Powdered Spices:
- Coriander Powder: 2 tsp
- Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp
Procedure:
- Heat 5 tbsp of mustard oil in a kadai.
- Once the oil gets hot, add the Onion Paste.
- Stir fry the onion paste over medium heat for 4-5 mins.
- Then add the ginger and garlic pastes.
- Stir fry the mixture for another 2 mins.
- Then add the potato slices. Roast for sometime.
- Then add the powdered spices.
- Over low heat, stir fry the mixture for 4-5 mins. This ensures that the ingredients blend thoroughly with each other with the spices.
- Then add the chicken pieces and increase the heat to medium-high.
- Roast the chicken along for another 20-22 mins.Drizzle 2 tbsp of honey over the mixture.Also sprinkle salt – the quantity of which depends upon the taste.
- Then add half a cup of water to the mixture and mix the ingredients. Check the level of salt and adjust if required.
- Warm up 1.5 cups of water in a pressure cooker.
- When the water in the cooker gets warm, transfer all the ingredients into the pressure cooker.
- Cook for 20 mins under low-medium heat until the chicken is tender.
