Punjabi Chicken Thali

Poultry
Jul 07, 2018
Moumita Ghosh
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Being a Bong by birth, if any cuisine I like after Bengali cuicine,this will be Punjabi food for sure. I can live on Punjabi food for many days. As much as Bengali food is comfortin for me, Punjabi food as well. So quite often I use to make Punjabi thali for our daily consumption. And most of the time I prepare Punjabi veg thali, because I love Punjabi veg food very much. But this time thought of making Punjabi Chicken thali with Dhaba Chicken. Dhaba style chicken will be the hightlight of the thali.

This thali contains

Butter roti
Jeera rice
Tandoori gobi fry
Dal makhani
Dhaba style chicken curry
Semiyan kheer

Butter roti

Ingredients & Instructions

Ingredients

Roti/phulka as many as you need' Butter 1 teaspoon for each roti

Steps to prepare

Take 1 teaspoon butter and melt on tawa, place each roti on the melted butter and lightly fry. Take them and store in a cassarole.

Rice - Jul 22, 2018

Jeera Rice

<p>Jeera rice is a very common rice varity cooked all over the India. This type is very easy easy to make. This is nothing but cumin flavored rice. This rice can be served with veg or non-veg curries. You can make either the everything in one pot or you can make the rice first and then toss with whole cumin & other spices. Let's check for the recipe.</p>

Butter roti

Ingredients & Instructions

Ingredients

Small gobi florates 15 pieces, blanched in boiled salted water
Curd 2 tablespoons
Lemon juice 1 lemon
Grated ginger & garlic 2 tablespoons
Tandoori masala 2 teaspoons
Red chili powder 1/2 teaspoon
Turmeric 1/2 teaspoon
Garam masala powder 1/2 teaspoon
Kasoori methi 2 teaspoons
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Steps to prepare

Take the blanched gobi and strain well. Take a large bowl, add curd, lemon juice, grated ginger & garlic, tandoori masala powder, red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder, salt & kasoori methi and mix well with a fork.
Now marinate the blached gobi in the curd mixture and keep aside for 1 hour.
After 1 hour, heat oil in a pan and fry the marinated gobi in the hot oil. If you don't want to fry, you may grill them on grilling pan.

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Dal Makhani

Dal Makhni/Makhani is a very popular & traditional Punjabi dish. This is a very much different version of Dal from the other Punjabi Dal. This Dal is a little bit time consuming preparation. It takes almost 24 hours to complete the dal in traditional way. But as now a days we have lots of modern cooking equipments. So this preparation hardly takes 1-2 hours to complete.

Dhaba style chicken curry

Ingredients & Instructions

Ingredients

For marinate the chicken:
Chicken bone-in pieces 500 gams
Ginger 1" long piece
Garlic 6 pods
Onion 1 small
Green chili 2
Curd 2 tablespoon
Lemon juice 1 lemon
Turmeric 1/2 teaspoon
Red chili powder 1/2 teaspoon
For the curry :
Mustard oil 2 tablespoons
Ghee 1 teaspoon
Bay leaf 1 large
Red chili whole 1
Cinnamon stick 1
Cloves 2, crushed
Green cardamom 2, crushed
Onion 1, finely chopped
Cumin powder 1 teaspoon
Coriander powder 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste
For smokey flavore :
Charcoal 1
Ghee 1/2 spoon

Steps to prepare

Take the chicken, wash under tap water, rinse well. Take a bowl, add all the ingredients under the heading "marinate" in it, mix well and marinate the chicken pieces.
Keep aside for 4 hours or over night.
Now after 4 hours, heat oil & ghee in a pan, temper with cinnamon, clove, cardamom, bay leaf & whole red chili, fry till fragrance comes. Fry the onion till golden in color, add marinated chicken pieces along with the marination. And fry everything for 2 minutes.
Now cover the pan and let the chicken cook for 10 minutes on low flame.
After 10 minutes higher the heat and let the excess water to evaporate.
Now add 1 cup warm water to the chicken and put everything in to a pressure cooker, and pressure cook till 2 to 3 whistles. The number of whistles may vary on locality.
Let realese the pressure itself. Now open the cooker and keep aside.
Now burn a charcoal, place the burnt charcoal in a small bowl and put the bowl in the cooker, add 1/2 teaspoon ghee on the burnt charcoal and it will start creating smoke. So cover the cooker and let it as it is for 5 minutes.
After 5 min

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Punjabi Chicken Thali

Butter roti

Jeera Rice

Butter roti

Dal Makhani

Dhaba style chicken curry

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