Bengali murgir jhol (chicken gravy)
Bengali murgir jhol (chicken gravy)

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Murgir Jhol is a light Chicken Curry prepared in almost all Bengali households and l is characterized red colour of the gravy and presence of potatoes. Every Bengali family loves their Murgir Jhol. It was a ritual back home to cook this Chicken Curry or Mangshor Jhol on every other Sunday.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bengali murgir jhol (chicken gravy) using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bengali murgir jhol (chicken gravy):
  1. Get 500 gm chicken
  2. Prepare 3 potato
  3. Prepare 3 onion
  4. Prepare 2 tomato
  5. Make ready 1 Bay leaf
  6. Take 1 whole dry red chilli
  7. Prepare 1/3 tsp Black peppercorn roughly crushed
  8. Prepare 4 Green cardamoms roughly crushed
  9. Make ready 4 cloves
  10. Make ready 2 cinnamon 1' pieces
  11. Take to taste Salt
  12. Make ready 1/2 tsp sugar
  13. Make ready as required Mustard oil
  14. Make ready 4-5 Green chillies
  15. Make ready 1 tsp Kashmiri mirch powder
  16. Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
  17. Take 1 tsp ginger paste
  18. Make ready 1 tsp garlic paste
  19. Prepare 1 tsp cumin powder
  20. Get 1 tsp coriander powder
  21. Get 1 1/2 cups hot water
  22. Make ready 1/4 tsp garam masala powder

This preparation contains light runny gravy or 'jhol' in which chicken and potatoes are immersed. Using big pieces of potatoes in meat curries is. How to cook Murgir Jhol / Bengali Style Chicken Thin Gravy. Wash chicken pieces and apply little bit oil, salt and turmeric powder, curd, ginger garlic paste,chilly powder and coriander powder on it.

Instructions to make Bengali murgir jhol (chicken gravy):
  1. Heat 4-5 tbsp oil in a deep frying pan/kadai. Fry the potatoes over medium heat, let them turn golden brown in color, remove and keep aside. In the remaining oil temper with bay leaf, dry red chilli, green cardamoms, black peppercorns, cloves, and cinnamon.
  2. Add sliced onions, fry until light brown in color. Add the ginger-garlic paste, cumin powder, coriander powder, kashmiri mirch powder, turmeric powder, and chopped tomatoes. Mix well and mash the tomatoes with the help of the spatula. Cook over medium heat until the masala starts leaving oil.
  3. Add chicken pieces, fried potatoes, and green chillies. Cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes, stir in between.
  4. Now add hot water, mix, cover and cook over low heat until the chicken is fully cooked. Add salt when the chicken is half cooked.
  5. Add sugar and garam masala powder at the end, mix and cook for 2-3 minutes more.
  6. Delicious bengali chicken gravy is ready

Let it marinate for half an hour.  Heat the remaining oil in a pan and fry potatoes until golden brown. Bengali Murgir Jhol is a delicious and common dish in Bengali households. A simple and light dish often made during sunday lunch, it is typically served with steamed rice, roti, naans or parathas. A versatile chicken dish, this Bengali chicken curry is also good for a weeknight dinner. Bengali homemade chicken curry or murgir jhol and bhaat is the favorite sunday lunch for almost all bengali families.

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