Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken dalcha. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Dalcha is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Dalcha is something that I have loved my entire life.
Chicken cooked with mixed dals and masalas to make a delicious dish This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel & has featured on Sanjeev Kapoor Kitchen. Main Ingredients : Chicken on Bone, Split Bengal Gram (chana dal) (चने की दाल) Dalcha is a gravy dish which has any meat which is cooked with dal and veggies in it. It is more like a meat sambar. This is a muslim recipe and it is normally served with ghee rice or any mild pulav.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken dalcha using 25 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dalcha:
- Take 500 gram chicken (curry cut)
- Make ready 1/4 cup masur dal
- Prepare 1/4 cup toovar dal
- Make ready 1 cup onion, finely sliced
- Take 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Take 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp shahi jira
- Get 1/2 inch cinnamon
- Get 2 green cardamoms
- Take 4 cloves
- Take 4 peppercorn
- Take 10 gram tamarind
- Get 2 tbsp coriander (chopped)
- Take 2 green chilli (chopped)
- Make ready 2 tbsp oil
- Get 1 tsp Salt
- Take For Baghar
- Prepare 2 whole dry red chilli (sliced)
- Prepare 2 sprigs curries leaves
- Take 5 garlic clove
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- Get 6 fenugreek seeds
- Take 1 tsp ghee
Dalcha is popular among Indian Muslims who originated from South India. In Malaysia, if you happen to attend any Muslim wedding, dalcha is a must accompaniment for the rice. Mostly dalcha is prepared with mutton rather than chicken. If you ask me mutton dalcha is more delicious than chicken dalcha.
Steps to make Chicken Dalcha:
- Marinate the chicken with 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp ginger garlic paste, 1/2 tsp red chilli powder and turmeric for an hour.
- Pressure cook lentils with 2 cups of water for 4 whistles or till lentils are tender. - Soak tamarind in 1/2 cup warm water for 15 minutes, mash and strain to get tamarind water.
- Soak tamarind in 1/2 cup warm water for 15 minutes, mash and strain to get tamarind water.
- Heat oil in a pan, add caraway seeds, cinnamon, peppercorn, cloves and cardamom and let them splutter.
- Add onions, chilies and saute till they get soft and brown in colour.
- Add remaining ginger garlic paste and fry till raw aroma goes away.
- Add remaining salt and red chilli powder, coriander powder and saute for a min. - Add 1/4 cup water and cook the spices for a min more.
- Add chicken and fry till it starts browning, for approx 10 mins.
- Add the boiled lentils, tamarind water, cover and cook till the chicken is cooked.
- For baghar, heat ghee in a frying pan and add all the baghar ingredients. - Once they splutter add the baghar to the Dalcha and cover immediately.
- Let the flavors of the bagar get infused with the gravy. - Garnish with coriander and serve hot.
Mostly dalcha is prepared with mutton rather than chicken. If you ask me mutton dalcha is more delicious than chicken dalcha. Add garam masala and crushed kasoori methi and simmer till completely cooked. Usually, Dalcha is made with mutton and a little bit of mutton fat. Dice the mutton into small pieces and set aside.
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