Chicken Chaap || Salma (Kolkata) Style

Recipe for Chicken Chaap

Time: Preparation 20 minutes, marination 4 hours, cooking 25 minutes.

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Ingredients

• Chicken 1 kg (big piece)
• Ginger paste - 2 tablespoon
• Garlic paste - 3 teaspoon
• Onion paste - 2 (medium size)
• Cashew paste - 80gm
• Popey seed paste - 40gm
• Yogurt - 200gm
• Coconut powder - 1 tablespoon 
• Red Chilli powder - 3 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
• Refined Oil - 6 tablespoon
• Ghee - 2 teaspoon
• Shahi Garam masala - 1 teaspoon
• Mace (Jayitri) powder - 1 teaspoon
• Casey (Kesar) - 1/2 teaspoon
• Milk - 1 table spoon
• Cardamom - 4 
• Cinnamon - 1/2 inch
• Black pepper - 4
• Keora water - 2 teaspoon
• Rose water - 2 teaspoon
• Salt to taste

Method

- Dip the poppy seed in warm water and keep it for 10 minutes.

- Wash chicken and remove water completely. No water should be present. If require use a clean cotton cloth to wipe off water.

- Slit the chicken pieces, so spices will go deep inside chicken during marination.

- Make paste of the poppy seed (use mixer grinder)

Marination

- Mix half of ginger paste (1 tbsp), half of garlic paste (2 tsp), poppy seed paste, yogurt, coconut powder, turmeric powder, red chili powder, garam masala powder, mace powder, 1 tsp keora water, 1 tsp rose water, half refined oil (3 tbsp) and salt with chicken properly. 

- Refrigerate it (10 degree C) for 4 hours.

Cooking

- Warm ghee and oil in a pan in medium heat

- Put cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper in the oil. 

- When aroma starts coming out, put onion paste in it. Cook it for 30-45 seconds.

- Put garlic paste, ginger paste and keep cooking. Keep on stirring it while cooking.

- When the mixture starts turning brown, put the marinated chicken in it and continue cooking for nearly 10 minutes.

- You will notice chicken will release oil. Now, mix kesar dipped in milk and cashew paste in it and cook for another 15 minutes. [If you need more gravy, then add some water]

Your cooking is complete. Chicken chaap with Chicken Biryani is an outstanding combination. But you can enjoy the delicious chicken chaap with Paratha too.

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