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Chicken Chaap or Chicken Chanp is a Classic Delight for Indian food lovers. This is a unique combination of juicy and moist chicken pieces with rich and thick gravy. Here is the Bengali Chicken Chaap Recipe with Kolkata Style from Arsalan.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook classic chicken chaap (kolkata style) using 32 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Chicken Chaap (Kolkata Style):
- Prepare Marination:
- Prepare 500 gm chicken (2 leg pieces)
- Take 4 Tablespoons Caramelized Onion Paste
- Get 3 Tablespoons Garlic Paste
- Get 2 Tablespoon Green Chilli Paste
- Make ready 1 Tablespoon Dried Melon Seed Paste (Char Magaz)
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon Garam Masala Powder
- Take 1 Tablespoons Green Papaya Paste
- Make ready 1 Teaspoon Nutmeg & Mess Powder (Javtri and Jaifal)
- Get 2 Tablespoons Yogurt
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon Ginger Paste
- Take 1 1/2 Tablespoon Gram Flour
- Take 1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
- Take Salt as per Taste
- Prepare 1/4 Cup Ghee
- Take 1/4 Cup Vegetable Oil
- Prepare Tempering:
- Take 1 " stick of Cinnamon
- Make ready 1 Black Cardamom
- Get 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 3 Green Cardamom
- Prepare 4 cloves
- Prepare Gravy:
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Saffron Soaked Milk
- Make ready 3 Tablespoon Cashew Paste
- Make ready 4 Tablespoon Poppy seed Paste
- Prepare 1/4 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- Get 1/2 Teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
- Get 1/4 Teaspoon Garam Masala Powder
- Take 1 Teaspoon Kewra Water
- Make ready 1/4 Teaspoon Rose Water
- Get 2-3 Drops Mitha Attar
Large pieces of meat are marinated in an assortment of spices and a cashew & poppy seed paste, and they then sit to soak. Slow roasted in fresh ghee, this is one of my favorite chicken dishes from the East of India, Kolkata to be precise. Kolkata style Chicken Chaap is a delicacy for Bengalis. This classic Awadhi style Chicken preparation is enjoyed most with Kolkata Biryani or Naan.
Steps to make Classic Chicken Chaap (Kolkata Style):
- At first, clean the Chicken and then make some Slits (a long narrow cut) on it.
- In a big bowl take the ingredients under the marination list, and whisk it together with 2 tbsp of Ghee. Now add in the chicken and leave it to marinate for at least 3-4 hours in refrigerator.
- Heat a wok on medium flame and put Ghee and Vegetable Oil. Remove chicken pieces from the marinade and add it to the wok, frying them one by one on medium-low heat, till they get a nice colour and is 70 per cent cooked. Making sure it cooks on both sides. Keep the chicken on a plate.
- Add the ingredients in the tempering list to the wok and cook till fragrant.
- Now add the leftover marinade into the pan add in cashew paste, poppy seed paste, turmeric and red chilli powder and cook for 15 mins. Add 1/2 cup of water if it gets too dry.
- Reduce the flame to medium-low and add in the chicken pieces, slow-cook for another 30 minutes. Stir occasionally so that the bottom part doesn't get burned, and flipping the chicken after 15 mins so that it cooks from both the sides.
- Once the chicken is cooked, add Garam Masala powder, Nutmeg & Mess powder, Kewra Water, Rose Water, Saffron infused milk and at last 2-3 drops of Mitha Attar, stir to combine.
- Serve it with Naan, Paratha or you can also serve it with plain white rice.
- Note: - Soak the cashew and poppy seeds in warm water for 20 minutes before making a paste. - The entire cooking process can and should be done with Ghee if calories are not what you are considering. - Do adjust the salt and chilli according to your taste
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Chicken Chaap is an unique combination of slow. Kolkata Chicken Chaap Recipe is a lip-smacking recipe of slow cooked marinated chicken legs with bone. Chicken chaap is an adopted Nawabi dish which is renowned in Calcutta/Kolkata due to historical reign of Bengal Nawabs. There are many restaurants in Kolkata with their own famous recipe for a chicken chaap, and here is my version of this favourite dish. Chicken chaap recipe step by step at home - Kolkata restaurant-style chicken chaap is a popular dish among Bengali people.
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