Chicken Bharta
- 5
- 26
- 30min
- 45min
Chicken Bharta is a very famous dish from North India. It is shredded chicken in a rich full of flavour creamy curry served with boiled eggs and eaten with various kinds of Indian Flat Bread.
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Time of Day
Dinner, Lunch
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
Cooking Steps
Method
Step 1 :
At first make a fine paste of one onion and marinate the chicken pieces with this paste of onion and one tablespoon each of ginger and garlic paste respectively. Now add some salt and keep it for half an hour.
Step 2 :
In the mean time, boil the rest of three onions(medium sized). Cool them down and make a paste of them in mixer. Now in the mixer add the remaining ginger and garlic paste. Churn them up a last time.
Step 3 :
Now take the kaju badam, char magaz, black pepper corns in a mixer and grind them to a fine paste adding occassional water. Add the curd in this mixture too. Run it the one last time.
Step 4 :
Keep it aside. More or less now everything is ready to be included in the main cooking.
Step 5 :
Now pressure cook those marinated chicken pieces, in adequate amount of water, till done. Open the cooker lid and strain the chicken out. Keep the chicken stalk aside.
Step 6 :
It will be needed later on. Now let them cool down. Now finely shred these chicken pieces. Boil two eggs too while shredding chickens.
Step 7 :
Now in a deep bottom pan, put the white oil and 1 1/2 tablespoon ghee. Heat it for two seconds and then add bay leaves, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon stick and a pinch of sugar in the pan. Let it splutter.
Step 8 :
Now add in the onion ginger garlic paste in it and stir fry it until it leaves oil around.
Step 9 :
Now add coriander and cumin powder in it and mix it well. Stir fry for another half minute. Add the white cashewnut and other mix paste in the pan and mix it well with the onions.
Step 10 :
Now cook it for another couple of minutes and then add the shredded chicken pieces. Mix well. Add the chicken stalk in it. Add the rose water and kewra water in it. Mix all well.
Step 11 :
Now taste it and then only add salt if required as do not forget the stalk do have salt in it. Add half teaspoon sugar in it.
Step 12 :
Basically i figured one thing. Chicken bharta has a thick creamy gravy and for that you need to add adequate amount of water or stalk.
Step 13 :
After adding the stalk if u feel the need of more liquid in it then heat some water a bit more and add it in the pan. Now bring it to a boil and let it simmer for five minutes so that all the spices mixed up well.
Step 14 :
Now mash or crumble one and half boiled eggs and mix it in the pan and stir. Now when you think its almost ready, add the kasuri methi leaves in it and mix well.
Step 15 :
Now before turning off the gas sprinkle some garam masala powder and the leftover ghee on it. Add the cream on it too along with some grated cheese.
Step 16 :
Now cover it with a lid so that the fragnant doesnt go out. Leave it for five minutes. Now serve it hot in a bowl. You can garnish it with the remaining half boiled egg, a bit more of cream and grated cheese.
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Chicken Bharta
- Serving is calculated as per the quantity mentioned in the recipe.
- Increase in servings might impact the cooking time. Please refer to the recipe for serving and time to cook details.
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- Serving is calculated as per the quantity mentioned in the recipe.
- Increase in servings might impact the cooking time. Please refer to the recipe for serving and time to cook details.
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- Serving is calculated as per the quantity mentioned in the recipe.
- Increase in servings might impact the cooking time. Please refer to the recipe for serving and time to cook details.
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