Chicken REZALA | Bengali Delicacy | Rich and Luxuriant!

Name: Chicken REZALA | Bengali Delicacy | Rich and Luxuriant!
Yield: 1 person
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 233.33 gms chicken on bones cut into 2.5″ pieces & de-skinned; 1.33 tbsp Yogurt; 0.17 cup sauteed onion + garlic + ginger paste; 0.33-0.17 tbsp special spice powder (see below how to make it; 0.67 tbsp Ghee (if not liquid add 1 tbsp); 2 Green Cardamom; 2 Cloves; 1 inch Cinnamon stick (broken into equal halves); 0.5 tsp Black pepper powder; 3 Black peppercorns; 1-1.33 dry whole red chilies; as required The marinated chicken; as required The Whole Spices (list mentioned above); 0.17 cup white poppy seeds + cashew paste; 0.25 cup Yogurt (whisked); 0.17 tbsp store-bought Chicken Masala (Mentioned above); 0.17 Birista (see NOTES how to make it); as per taste Salt to taste; 1 drop Kewra water

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Chicken rezala is a popular Mughlai style recipe of chicken, slow-cooked in curd or yogurt, cashew, and poppy seeds based white less spicy gravy, with a perfect blend of ghee, garam masala, and kewra water. In Kolkata, chicken rezala is most popular for creating its magic over foodies for ages with its shahi taste and flavor.

Traditionally, rezala has a different version with chicken, mutton, beef, or egg though chicken is most popular among people due to its soft meat and easy-to-digest nature. Though Kolkata’s best Mughlai restaurants like Arsalan, Aminia, Shiraz, Nizam, Royal, Zeeshan all prepare all types of rezala recipes in their kitchen not only with chicken. But chicken rezala is always come first for high demand among Bengalis and it is mostly served with rumali roti or biryani, though we may have it with plain roti, paratha, or rice too.

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Ingredients

30 minutes

1 person

233.33 gmschicken on bones cut into 2.5″ pieces & de-skinned
1.33 tbspYogurt
0.17 cupsauteed onion + garlic + ginger paste
0.33-0.17 tbspspecial spice powder (see below how to make it
0.67 tbspGhee (if not liquid add 1 tbsp)
Whole Spices:
2Green Cardamom
2Cloves
1 inchCinnamon stick (broken into equal halves)
Chicken Masala
0.5 tspBlack pepper powder
3Black peppercorns
1-1.33dry whole red chilies
For making the Chicken Rezala:
as required The marinated chicken
as required The Whole Spices (list mentioned above)
0.17 cupwhite poppy seeds + cashew paste
0.25 cupYogurt (whisked)
0.17 tbspstore-bought Chicken Masala (Mentioned above)
0.17Birista (see NOTES how to make it)
as per taste Salt to taste
1 dropKewra water

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Steps

30 minutes

1

To begin making the Bengali Style Chicken Rezala Recipe - Chicken Korma, grind the onion, half of ginger and half of garlic in a mixer to a smooth paste.
2

Once the paste is made, remove and transfer it into a bowl. Wash the mixer and add cashew nuts and poppy seeds and add about 1/4 cup water and grind it into a smooth paste and set aside in a bowl.
3

Wash the chicken pieces well and place it in a bowl. Add half of the ground onion paste, half of cashew-nut and poppy seed paste, and 1 cup of yogurt, salt and 1 teaspoon pepper powder and give it a mix.
4

Marinate the chicken for at least 1 hour in the refrigerator, this will help to tenderise the chicken pieces.
5

Heat a kadai with mustard oil, once it is heated up, add all the whole spice like cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf and dry red chillies and saute until the spice are roasted well. This will just take a minute.
6

Add the remaining chopped onion, ginger and garlic into the pan and saute for a couple of minutes.
7

Add in the remaining poppy seed and cashew nut paste and give it a stir.
8

Finally add in the marinated chicken pieces along with all the curd mixture into the pan, sprinkle 2 teaspoon garam masala powder, salt to taste and give it a slight mix.
9

Close it with the lid and allow the Chicken Rezala to cook on medium heat for 25 minutes until the chicken is tender and cooked.
10

Make sure you turn the chicken pieces in the middle and give the curry a stir so the chicken gets evenly cooked.
11

Open the lid and sprinkle a teaspoon of sugar and give it a stir and turn off the heat. Check the salt and adjust according to taste.
12

Transfer the Chicken Rezala onto a serving plate and sprinkle with few strands of saffron and serve hot.
13

Serve the Bengali Style Chicken Rezala Recipe along with Whole Wheat Onion Stuffed Kulcha and Begun Bhaja Recipe, Pickled Onions, Tomato/Cucumber salads by the side to make your meal complete.
Bon appetite 🍗