Chicken Butter Masala

 

                                                Chicken Butter Masala

            Some of my friends from Patna on a short visit to Ranchi arrived and stayed at my residence and spent some good time with us. As Patna is the capital of dry state Bihar, so whoever arrives in Ranchi or in Jharkhand first of the demand some special beverage to become surfeit to sloshed sometimes. But with that some good food is also comes behind so the preparations of Chicken is must with Naan or boiled rice or with Pulao. Generally chicken curries prepared at home.

                        But this time I requested my wife to treat our guest in ethnic style preparation of Chicken Butter Chicken Masala rather traditional chicken curries. I suggested her to prepare above mentioned recipe she happily agreed and directed me to co operate in cocking and shot me a long list to fetch the ingredients from the market, which I did.

                           As I witnessed her indulgence in the preparation of the stuff my eyes balls became wide. Its preparation demanding hard work and perseverance. It is made in two parts, first is marinating of the chicken and another part is making of gravy, as she did first of all mid size pieces of skinned but succulent pieces of chicken about 750 or 1 Kg, either with bone or bone less and mixed with yogurt, Red Chilies, Coriander, turmeric powder, with salt and Garam Masala ( all in 1 tablespoon) left to marinate for an hour, after that she mixed with garlic and Ginger paste.

                     Then for making gravy thin pieces of Onion with tomato cocked and made paste with cashews for flavor, with little level of cream for making thick gravy. This preparation is heavy and oily in thickness. Some use Ketchup to make it sweet, salty and tart and little butter. Lastly about 100 gms of Kasturi Methi is must ingredient. Lastly it came out almost Restaurant style preparation and my guests relished it to their satisfaction. It is to be noted that most of the preparation she did in earthen pots and served in earthen plate too for giving an extra dimensions and ethnic tinge, which were applauded by my guests.

Text and Photo by—Ashok Karan.

ashokkaran@gmail.com



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