Goalondo Steamer curry or Boatman style chicken curry

Name: Goalondo Steamer curry or Boatman style chicken curry
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 500 gm chicken; 3 large onion; 6-7 garlic cloves; 1 inch ginger; 3-4 dry red Chilli; 2-3 Green chillies; 1 tsp Turmeric powder; to taste Salt; 1/4 tsp red chilli powder; 2-3 potatoes; 4-5 tbsp mustard oil

Soumi Banerjee @cook_19946990

Kolkata

This is a very nostalgia dish for a Bengali. This recipe is from the Undivided Bengal. This recipe has a little story behind it as how it got the name. During the British period trains used to rain from Calcutta to East Bengal till a small station/place name Goalondo, from there steamer used to travel till Narayanganj in Dacca. It was a overnight journey. The boatman used to prepare a very simple or basic chicken curry with very few ingredients for there own food consumption, but later it was served to the travellers as it was a overnight journey and they needed meal. This is how this simple curry became famous. Only 5-6 ingredients and that too crushed and chopped. Even the great poet RabindraNath Tagore was fond of this chicken. Some added shrimp or dried fish paste also to make it tasty but I have used it.

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Soumi Banerjee @cook_19946990

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Ingredients

40 min

3 servings

500 gmchicken
3large onion
6-7garlic cloves
1 inchginger
3-4dry red Chilli
2-3Green chillies
1 tspTurmeric powder
to tasteSalt
1/4 tspred chilli powder
2-3potatoes
4-5 tbspmustard oil

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Steps

40 min

1

Crush the ginger, garlic and red Chile. Now Marinate the chicken with sliced onion, ginger and garlic, salt turmeric powder and mustard oil. Keep it for at least an hour.
2

Now in a pan add mustard oil. When it becomes hot add the marinated chicken. Add the diced potatoes also. Now fry it in high flame for 5-8 min. Then lower the flame and cover it. The chicken will cook in it own juice. If required add water. Cook it for 30-35 min. When done the oil will be floating on the top. Serve it with hot steamed rice, lemon, onion and green Chile.