Recipe: Delicious Bengali style chicken curry

Bengali style chicken curry.

You can cook Bengali style chicken curry using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Bengali style chicken curry

1. It's 1 Kg of chicken curry cut.
2. It's 2 of onions roughly chopped.
3. You need 1 of tomato.
4. It's 1 tablespoon of ginger paste.
5. You need 1 tablespoon of garlic paste.
6. You need 1-2 of potatoes cut in squares.
7. It's 3-4 of green chilies.
8. You need 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder.
9. It's 1 teaspoon of coriander powder.
10. It's 1 teaspoon of red chili powder(optional).
11. It's 1 teaspoon of garam masala powder.
12. You need 2-3 of bay leaves.
13. Prepare 1/4 cup of chopped coriander leaves.
14. Prepare 2 tablespoons of oil for cooking/ mustard oil.
15. It's to taste of Salt.
16. You need 1/4 teaspoonful of whole cumin seeds.
17. It's 1 teaspoonful of garam masala powder.
18. It's 1 inch of cinnamon broken into pieces.
19. It's 4-5 of cardamom pods.
20. You need 7-8 of cloves.

Bengali style chicken curry step by step

1. Make a paste of the onion, tomato, green chilies in a blender..
2. Marinade the chicken with the onion-tomato chili paste, ginger paste, garlic paste, turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, red chili powder, garam masala powder, salt and leave it for about an hour..
3. Take a pan/kadhai, add the oil and let it be hot..
4. Once the oil is hot, add the whole cumin seeds, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and bay leaves..
5. As the oil turns aromatic, add the chopped potatoes and sauté them for 2 minutes..
6. Now, add the marinated chicken. Cook the chicken till you see the oil leaving the sides of the pan..
7. Stir for 1 minute and then add water..
8. Let the gravy simmer till you reach the desired consistency..
9. Now add the garam masala powder and chopped coriander leaves. Serve with hot steamed rice..