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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 begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have classic chicken chaap (kolkata style) using 32 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Chicken Chaap (Kolkata Style):
- Get Marination:
- Make ready 500 gm chicken (2 leg pieces)
- Get 4 Tablespoons Caramelized Onion Paste
- Prepare 3 Tablespoons Garlic Paste
- Take 2 Tablespoon Green Chilli Paste
- Get 1 Tablespoon Dried Melon Seed Paste (Char Magaz)
- Take 1 Tablespoon Garam Masala Powder
- Prepare 1 Tablespoons Green Papaya Paste
- Get 1 Teaspoon Nutmeg & Mess Powder (Javtri and Jaifal)
- Get 2 Tablespoons Yogurt
- Make ready 1 Tablespoon Ginger Paste
- Prepare 1 1/2 Tablespoon Gram Flour
- Take 1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
- Take Salt as per Taste
- Make ready 1/4 Cup Ghee
- Prepare 1/4 Cup Vegetable Oil
- Make ready Tempering:
- Get 1 " stick of Cinnamon
- Make ready 1 Black Cardamom
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Get 3 Green Cardamom
- Take 4 cloves
- Get Gravy:
- Take 1/2 Cup Saffron Soaked Milk
- Make ready 3 Tablespoon Cashew Paste
- Make ready 4 Tablespoon Poppy seed Paste
- Get 1/4 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- Get 1/2 Teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
- Take 1/4 Teaspoon Garam Masala Powder
- Get 1 Teaspoon Kewra Water
- Prepare 1/4 Teaspoon Rose Water
- Get 2-3 Drops Mitha Attar
Chicken Chaap is a unique combination of well-cooked juicy chicken in rich oil based thick gravy. It's rich yet not spicy, rather extremely flavourful and finger licking good. Kolkata style Chicken Chaap is a delicacy for Bengalis. This classic Awadhi style Chicken preparation is enjoyed most with Kolkata Biryani or Naan.
Instructions 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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