Bangladeshi Chicken Rezala

Ingredients

• 8 chicken pieces, bone-in
• 1 cup yoghurt
• 15 cashews, soaked and blended smooth
• 2 onions, fried and blended to paste
• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
• 4 cardamom pods
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 4 cloves
• 2 bay leaves
• 4 green chillies, slit
• 1 tsp white pepper
• 4 tbsp ghee
• Salt
• 1 tbsp rose water (optional)

Instructions

1. Marinate the chicken in yoghurt for 30 minutes.
2. Heat ghee and fry the whole spices.
3. Add the onion paste, ginger-garlic and white pepper.
4. Add the chicken with marinade; cook gently 10 minutes.
5. Stir in the cashew paste with a little water; simmer covered 25 minutes.
6. Add green chillies and rose water at the end.

Serving suggestions

• Lovely with paratha or sheermal.

Storage & reheating

Keeps 3 days.

Nutrition

Nutrition information is not yet available for this recipe. Values vary with portion size and exact ingredients — we will add verified figures here soon.

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