Recipe: Yummy Bengali Style Chicken Curry with Potatoes

Bengali Style Chicken Curry with Potatoes. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Try this easy Bengali Chicken and Potato Curry recipe with step by step instructions! If you are a fan of Bengali cuisine, then you must try this easy Bengali Chicken and Potato Curry recipe.

This simple Bengali style egg and potato curry is one of the best forms of egg curry for sure. I have posted the recipe of Hanser Dimer Dalna aka Duck Egg curry long back on Debjanir Rannaghar. This new post is about a more generalized form of the same recipe cooked with chicken egg. "Jhol" is a term that denotes liquid curry/ stew which is prepared with onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, seasonings and water (to make liquid). You can cook Bengali Style Chicken Curry with Potatoes using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bengali Style Chicken Curry with Potatoes

It's 500 gm of chicken.
Prepare 4 of potatoes cut into two halves.
You need 1/2 cup of yogurt.
It's 1.5 teaspoon of ginger paste.
You need 10 of garlic buds grinded into paste.
You need 2 medium sized of onion chopped.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of tomato ketchup.
It's 1 teaspoon of red chilli powder.
You need 1 teaspoon of coriander powder.
It's 1/2 cup of chopped coriander leaves (optional).
It's 1 of bayleaf.
Prepare as needed of Whole garam masala (4 green cardamom, 3 cloves).
Prepare 1 teaspoon of garam masala powder.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of ghee (optional).
It's 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder.
Prepare as needed of Vegetable oil.

You can put chicken, fish, egg or any non veg stuffs in the curry and it will come out nice. It is spicy and generally serve with steamed rice. It's a comfort food in Bengali and Odisha houses. The most substantial ingredient of making this chicken.

Bengali Style Chicken Curry with Potatoes step by step

Marinate the chicken with yogurt, 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder, ginger paste, garlic paste, red chilli powder, dhaniya powder and salt. Keep it covered for at least 1hr..
Heat some oil in a wok, add the potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder and salt..
Fry them till golden brown. Keep it aside..
In the same wok, add some more oil if required. Add the bayleaf and whole garam masalas. Let them splutter..
Add the chopped onions and fry till golden brown in colour..
Add the marinated chicken and mix it well. Keep it covered and saute it in between..
Add the fried potatoes when the chicken is half cooked..
Add some lukewarm water if required or if you need some gravy..
Mix them well and keep it covered for 10min..
Check whether the chicken has become soft. If yes, add the garam masala, ghee and coriander leaves..
Mix them well and serve hot.

Murgir jhol or aloo diye murgir jhol or Bengali sunday special light chicken curry is a quick and easy recipe of Bengal. Murgir jhol means a simple soup like healthy Bengali light chicken curry with potato which is a Sunday special nostalgia. ABOUT Bengali Chicken Curry With Potato (Aloo Murgir Jhol) RECIPE "Jhol" is a term that denotes liquid curry/stew which is prepared with onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, seasonings and water (to make liquid). You can put chicken, fish, egg or any non veg stuffs in the curry and it will come out nice. This chicken curry recipe yields tender chicken pieces in a hot, flavourful, stew-like jhol (curry).