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Chicken Chaap

 We Bengalees have a great effinity towards Mughlai cuisine. Anything cooked with rich mughlai spices definitely find their way to our household kitchen. One such recipe is chicken chaap . It is a very delicious dish which you can have with naan or Biriyani. So without wasting let’s start .


Ingredients:-

Chicken leg and thigh pieces - 4 (900gms)

Yoghurt -300gms

Onion  - 2 medium size

Garlic -6-7 medium size

Ginger-3 tbsp

Green chilli -3 nos

Cashewnut - 25 GMs

Poppy seeds - 4 tbsp

Charmagaj - 2 tbsp

Turmeric powder -1 tbsp

Chilli powder- 1 tbsp

Keora essence -1 tsp

Mitha Ittar-3 drops

Mustard oil-4 tbsp

Put all this ingredients except the keora and ittar into your mixing jar and give it a spin . This will be your wet marination mix. Now let’s move toward chaap masala . For it you have to take a fry pan and roast these following ingredients and grind it in a mixture.

Chaap masala:-

Shahi jeera -1tsp

Shahi marich-1tsp

Cloves-5 nos 

Cardamom -4 pods

Cinnamon-1 small stick

Jayitri-1 tsp

Jaiphal-1 tsp

Whole dhania seeds -1 tsp

Add 2 tbsp of this masala to your marinated chicken.

Procedure:-

First pat dry the chicken with a tissue . Take a knife and do some inundations on the leg and thigh so that the marinades could seep in the chicken. Marinade the chicken overnight or at least 5 hrs. Then take a lidded wide spread pan . Put 2 tbsp ghee and 3 tbsp oil . Place the chicken pieces one by one and fry each side golden brown. Lower the flame and add rest of the marinade mixture into it . Close the lid and cook it in low flame till the meat become tender . Add the keora essence and ittar to it and your Chaap is ready.


                         BON APPETITE!!!


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