Chicken Rezala

Chicken Rezala

Chicken rezala, a traditional chicken recipe in Bengali style made using chicken and some rich ingredients like kaju, khus khus, fried onions and curd.

 

Ingredients

• 500 gms chicken pieces cleaned and washed well
• 3 tbsp oil
• whole garam masala (3 cloves, 2 cardamoms, 1 medium size cinnamon stick, 1 bay leaf, 2 whole dried red chillies)
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 4-5 slit green chillies
• salt to taste
• 1 cup yogurt/curd beaten well without lumps
• blended masala paste (paste of boiled onions, kaju, khus khus)
• 1/2 cup golden fried onions
• 1/2 tsp kali mirch powder (black pepper powder)
• 1/2 tsp white pepper powder
• 1/2 tsp roasted coriander powder

HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN REZALA:

Step 1( Making of masala paste):

• Firstly, take a vessel and boil 2 onions for few minutes, switch off the flame and rest them aside.
• Boil 8-9 cashew nuts in a separate vessel for 10 minutes and keep them aside.
• Boil 1 tbsp poppy seeds or khus khus in little water for 10 minutes and keep them aside.
• Now in a blending jar, add boiled cashew nuts, boiled poppy seeds, add very little water and blend all the masala into a fine paste.
• Now add the boiled onions into the jar and make a fine paste of all the ingredients.

Step 2 (Frying of onions):

• Take a non stick pan, add oil and heat it.
• Add the 3 sliced onions into the oil.
• Fry the onions until they turn slight golden color.
• Take the fried onions out and rest them aside.
• Let the onions cool and crush them well.

Step 3(Making of chicken rezala):

• In a vessel, add 3 tbsp oil and heat it.
• Add whole garam masala such as 3 cloves, 2 cardamoms, 1 medium size cinnamon stick, 1 bay leaf, 2 whole dried red chillies.
• Add 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste, saute them for few minutes on low flame, be careful.
• Add chicken pieces, salt as per taste and roast them for few minutes until color of the chicken changes.
• Add 4-5 slit green chillies.
• Add the beaten yogurt into the chicken and mix well.
• Cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the masala paste (paste of boiled onions, boiled kaju and boiled khus khus).
• Mix well and cook for 10-15 minutes on low flame by covering the lid.
• Add the crushed brown onions and mix them well.
• Add black pepper powder, add white pepper powder, add roasted coriander powder, adjust salt if required and mix well.
• Cook the chicken rezala for 10 minutes on low flame or until chicken gets tenderized.
• Cook well and cook until oil starts floating.

Step 4(Give the tadka):

• Take a tadka pan, add a tbsp oil and heat it.
• Add onion rings/cubes into the oil.
• Add the dried red chillies, saute well.
• Add the tadka into the chicken rezala.

Step 5:

• Switch off the flame and serve the chicken with rice, roti or paratha.