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Mughlai Chicken
Mughlai Chicken
Mughlai Recipes are the ones which were prepared when the Mughals ruled
India. These recipes transferred from hand to hand are today known as
Mughlai dishes. Mughlai Dishes and Recipes have a special way of preparing
them - often lengthy than the usual ones. It takes a lot of gourmand and
garnishing to prepare the delicacy. In earlier days all the ingredients were
hand picked, grounded and then stemmed at low temperatures to get the best
of the taste.
Though the way the manner the Mughlai dishes have changed dramatically,
still the taste remains the same. A lot of pain is taken to prepare the
delicacy, which takes hours to prepare the dishes. Not all the dishes take a
long time to prepare - Mughlai Chicken is one such dish.
Mughlai Chicken
Ingredients :
1 Chicken
4 Bay leaf
3 medium sized onion
4 Green Chillies
4 Browm or Large Cardamom
4 tsp sugar
4- 5 Cinnamon as per taste
8 - 9 pods garlic
1/2 kg tomatoes
4 lightly beaten eggs
Salt to taste
Flaked Almonds for Garnishing
To be ground :
Grind the cloves, chillies and tomatoes in a grinder. Grind them till they
make a fine paste.
Preparation Method
In one bowl mix the eggs, sugar, ground almonds. Mix them well to make
a paste. Now, heat some cooking oil in a deep frying pan. Add cardamom,
cinnamon sticks to the heated oil. Add the chopped onions to it and fry
till the onions turn golden brown. Add the paste of tomato and stir it.
Then pour the chicken chunks to this gravy. Let it fry for five minutes.
Then add the paste of eggs and ground almonds to the Gravy. Lower down
the heat and let it simmer for 5- 10 minutes till the chicken hunks are
soft or cooked properly to eat. Garnish with flaked almonds and serve
with Roti, fried rice or Naan.
Our Suggestions
- Mughlai Chicken is a Mughlai Delicacy, which is
prepared on special occasions. So be there to try it out at any of
the Indian Festivals.
- It is specially prepared at the time of Muslim
Festivals like Id.
Punjabis too prepare this dish.
- Apart from Mughlai Chicken other variants of
Chicken too are prepared. Murg Noorjehani, Shahi Chicken Korma,
Chicken Malai Curry, Butter Chicken are some of the famous Chicken
Dishes prepared in Inida. Try them out too!
- Its a dish of the Winters, so if you really
want to enjoy the taste of Mughlai Chicken, then prepare it in this
season.
