Bengali Style Chicken Curry / Murgir Jhol

Ingredients :

1. Chicken - 500 gm

2. Peel Potato - 3 ( Each cut into  4 pieces )

3. Turmeric Powder as required

4. Salt  To Taste

5. Onion 4 pieces  ( thinly sliced )

6. Garlic  Paste - 3 Table spoon

7. Kashmiri dry red chili paste - 3 table spoon

8. Dry red chili paste - 1 table spoon

9. Mustard  oil as required

10. Gram  masala powder - 1 tea spoon

11. Bay leaf ( tej patta ) - 2 pieces

12. Cumin ( jeera )  paste - 2 table spoon

13. Coriander ( dhania )  paste - 2 table spoon

14. Tomato 1 pieces ( finely Chopped )

15. Curd ( betan )  - 50 gm

16. Ginger ( adrak ) paste - 2 table spoon

17. Lemon Juice - 1 tea spoon

18. Warm  Water  4 cup

19. Cloves  ( lavang )  crushed - 1 pieces

20 . Cumin  seeds ( jeera ) -  1/2  tea spoon

21. Crushed  Cinnamon  ( dalchini ) -  2 pieces

22.  Slit , crushed  green cardamom  - 2 pieces

Method :

1. Step - 1 , Chicken Pieces cleaned  and  wash .

2 . Step - 2 ,  Now  take a bowl , then add 500 gm chicken pieces , salt as required , turmeric powder  1/2 tea spoon  , mustard oil 2 table spoon , cumin paste  ( jeera )  2 table spoon , coriander ( dhania ) paste 2 table spoon , add finely chopped tomato , curd ( betan ) 50 gm , ginger ( adrak ) paste 2 table spoon , lemon juice 1 tea spoon  and garlic paste  3 table spoon . Rub all over meat . Cover and marinate  for about  4 or 5 hours .

3. Step - 3 , Now add oil in pan for 3 - 5 minutes on medium heat . Heat oil . When oil heated  put  the potato pieces  into the pan and  fry them . Fry potato until golden brown .

4. Step - 4 , Now heat the remaining oil in the same pan now add crushed slit green cardamoms 2 pieces , crushed cinnamon ( dalchini ) 2 pieces , cumin seeds  ( jeera )  1/2 tea spoon , crushed cloves ( lavang )  1 pieces and bay leaf ( tej patta )  2 pieces and fry for all spices .

5. Step - 5 , Now add thinly sliced onion and fry for golden brown color . Now add marinate  chicken pieces  and mix well. Mix fry till chicken  is browned ( about 10 minutes ) . Stirring occasionally.

6. Step - 6 , Now add 4 cups  warm water  and mix well . Now add fried  potato  and  mix very well . Now add  1 tea spoon garam masala powder  and mix very well . When it will start boiling  cover  with lid . Cook until potato are done  and 10 minutes medium flame . Cover the  pan with a lid  and  cook in  medium flame  for  about 15 minutes . When chicken and potato soften  completely  and when  the gravy coats the chicken  completely . Now chicken is ready  . Transfer to serving bowl .

7. Serve hot with  steamed  rice .