Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken chap. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Chap is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chicken Chap is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Chicken Chaap is a Mughal inspired recipe where the marinated chicken will be slowly cooked in thick oily gravy. The rich flavor of the gravy and the soft juicy moist chicken makes this dish not only unique but very delicious too. Chicken Chaap or Chicken Chanp is a Classic Delight for Indian food lovers.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken chap using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Chap:
- Prepare 500 gm chicken (2 leg pieces)
- Make ready 1 cup hung curd (greek yogurt)
- Make ready 1 onion ground to paste
- Make ready 1 tablespoon ginger paste
- Take 1 tablespoon garlic paste
- Prepare 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Take 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Take 6 cashew nuts
- Take 2 tablespoon poppy seeds
- Get 2 tablespoon charmagaz (melon seeds)
- Take 1 inch cinnamon stick broken into pieces
- Get 1/4 teaspoon sahi jeera (cumin seeds)
- Make ready 5-6 cardamom pods
- Get 7-8 pepper corns
- Prepare 7-8 cloves
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 star anise
- Make ready 1 pinch nutmeg(jaiphal) powder
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon mace(javitri) powder
- Take 2-3 green chilies
- Make ready 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- Get 1/4 cup ghee
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon kewra water
- Prepare 1 teaspoon rose water
- Get to taste Salt
Went to Chap's today after having a craving for chicken and waffles. Chap's is a perfect hole in the wall in Lakeview, it's located in a little strip mall on Harrison. The lady who was working was super sweet and helpful. A chicken delicacy coupled with Biryani, loved and savoured by the meat-eating bongs (and others); Chicken Chaap certainly is one of the famous chicken side available in almost all the Mughlai food joints in Kolkata.
Instructions to make Chicken Chap:
- Clean the chicken and pat it dry with kitchen towel. Make small cuts or incisions on the chicken pieces. Add salt and the hung curd to the chicken and let it marinate for 30 minutes. This is the first marination.
- Roast the cinnamon sticks, cardamom pods, peppercorns, cloves, bay leaf, star anise and sahi jeera and grind them to a fine powder. This is garam masala powder.
- Soak the poppy seed, cashew nuts, charmagaz for about 30 minutes. After 30 minutes make a paste of the above along with the green chilies.
- To the chicken, add the onion paste, ginger and garlic paste, turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, javitri and jaiphal powder, the paste of cashew nuts, poppy seeds, charmagaz and green chilli rose water, kewra water. Mix the spices properly with the chicken and specially in the cuts of the chicken.
- Take a flat bottomed pan or a wide kadai. To the kadai, add the oil and the ghee. Once the oil is hot, add the chicken gradually along with all marinade.
- Now, cover the kadai and cook the chicken. Ocassionally, stir the chicken and spices. Once the chicken is cooked, turn off the flame. Serve the chicken chaap either mutton biriyani, kulcha naan.
As a matter of fact, Chatu aka Sattu aka gram flour plays an important role in cooking this dish. Asma Khan's chicken chaap recipe is a feast for the senses. A unique korma from Bengal, it is a far cry from the super-sweet kormas you'll find in a lot of UK restaurants, instead opting for a wonderfully mellow spicing from Asma's homemade garam masala. Kolkata Chicken Chaap Recipe is a lip-smacking recipe of slow cooked marinated chicken legs with bone. Chicken chaap is an adopted Nawabi dish which is renowned in Calcutta/Kolkata due to historical reign of Bengal Nawabs.
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