Murgir Jhol l Bengali Chicken Curry with Potato
Murgir Jhol l Bengali Chicken Curry with Potato

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Murgir jhol means a simple soup like healthy Bengali light chicken curry with potato which is a Sunday special nostalgia. Aloo diye murgi'r patla jhol still reminds me of those best Sunday afternoons when it served with gorom vat or piping hot rice. Great recipe for Murgir Jhol l Bengali Chicken Curry with Potato. This is probably the most easy and soulful chicken recipe.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have murgir jhol l bengali chicken curry with potato using 17 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Murgir Jhol l Bengali Chicken Curry with Potato:
  1. Prepare 500 gms curry cut chicken
  2. Make ready 2 potatoes, diced
  3. Prepare 1 tomato, chopped
  4. Take 1 large onion, chopped
  5. Make ready 5 green chillies, slitted
  6. Prepare 1 handful garlic cloves, crushed
  7. Prepare 1 inch ginger, grated
  8. Get 1 cinnamon stick (dalchini)
  9. Take 5 green cardamom (elaichi)
  10. Make ready 5 cloves (laung)
  11. Get 2 star anise (chakra phool)
  12. Prepare 2 bay leaves (tej patta)
  13. Make ready 1 tea-spoon cumin powder (jeera)
  14. Get 1/2 tea-spoon turmeric powder (haldi)
  15. Get 1/2 tea-spoon red chilli powder
  16. Get 3-4 table-spoon mustard oil
  17. Make ready To taste salt

Clean the chicken pieces and then marinate with ginger garlic paste,turmeric powder,salt and curd. First shallw fry the potatoes along with salt and turmeric powder.keep aside. Heat more mustard oil and temper with whole garam masala. Add hot water for the gravy, and cook until the chicken is done and potatoes are tender and juicy.

Instructions to make Murgir Jhol l Bengali Chicken Curry with Potato:
  1. Wash the chicken pieces properly and rub some turmeric powder and salt. Shallow fry the pieces and keep aside.
  2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the potato pieces with little turmeric powder and salt. Once they are golden yellow, remove from the pan and keep aside.
  3. Heat some more oil and add bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamoms, cloves, star anise, chopped onion and crushed garlic. Sautè until the onion turns translucent and the mixture starts spreading aroma.
  4. Now, add grated ginger, green chillies and tomato. Stir till the tomato becomes soft and mushy.
  5. Add cumin powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and required salt and stir for 2 minute on medium flame.
  6. Now, add the fried potato and mix well.
  7. Add 3 cups of warm water and bring it to boil.
  8. Now, add the chicken pieces and cover the lid. Cook for 15-20 minutes on low flame.
  9. Open the lid and check if the chicken is well cooked and the consistency of the gravy. There should be enough gravy in the curry.
  10. Once the chicken is well cooked, turn off the flame and remove it in a serving vessel.
  11. The Murgir Jhol is ready to be served now.

Heat more mustard oil and temper with whole garam masala. Add hot water for the gravy, and cook until the chicken is done and potatoes are tender and juicy. In a sheel nora or mortar pestle grind whole gorom moshla, that is — green cardamom, cloves and cinnamon with some water until it forms a smooth paste. Finish with freshly ground gorom moshla and some raw mustard oil. Basically, Murgir Jhol is a light Chicken Curry prepared in almost all Bengali households and this Jhol is characterized by the runniness and red color of the gravy and presence of well-cooked potatoes in the Chicken Curry.

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