Shorshe Chicken (Mustard Chicken)
This is a classic Bengali dish,
although mainly cooked with fish. This
is not for the faint hearted-for the dish has a punch from the mustard paste which
is very different from the English mustard paste one would get in store. Usually
mustard paste for the dish is made using mustard seeds and using ‘Shil Nora’ (pestle
and mortar).
There are various ways to cook
the dish. The traditional way (or it is said..Although debatable) of cooking,
this dish is the simplest and I feel, also the tastiest. However, my mother thinks
otherwise. She will add some fried red chili and curry leaves to the dish very
often to make it a little different. Sometimes she also adds coconut milk or
just milk. I am cooking it my way- the simplest way for me, so that I can get
over with this week’s cooking and cleaning and then go out to enjoy the snow!
Happy cooking and enjoy the food.
Ingredients:
1
small chicken
2-onions
finely copped
1-tablesppon
ginger paste
1-tablespoon
garlic paste
1-teaspoon
turmeric powder
¼-teaspoon
red chili powder (depending on taste)
3-tablespoon
mustard paste (or powder. I used powder from kolkata)
3-tablespoon
yogurt
2-tablespoon
mustard oil/ white oil (I used combination of both)
4-green
chili slit in the middle and deseeded to get rid of the hotness of the chili
Salt
to taste
Pinch
of sugar
Method:
1. Heat oil
in a pan and add sugar and caramelize it
2. Add the
onion and fry until soft and brown
3. Add ginger
and garlic paste and fry
4. Add red
chili and turmeric and salt and little water
5. Cook it until
oil separated
6. Add chicken
and cook until tender. Incase needed add little water. Otherwise it should
release water anyway
7. When chicken
is cooked add the mustard paste ( if using package then soak the mustard with
little salt for 10 mins before using)
8. Add green
chili
9. Cook for
5/10 mins and then add the yogurt ( which is already beaten in a bowl)
10. Cook for
another 5/10 or until gravy reduced but do
not cook for long as the yogurt may separate
11. Serve with
boiled white rice
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2 comments
This was the best Chicken dish I had ever made. Thank you so much. There were appreciations all around.
ReplyDeleteP.S- I was a happy eater as well.
Dear Subhojit, I am really sorry for the late reply. Thank you so much for your kind words. I am so so happy that you cooked my dish and loved it. Hope you continue to cook my recipes and give me feed back as all your feedback keeps me going. Thank you once again
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