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Bharwan Chicken Pasanda Recipe
How to make Bharwan Chicken Pasanda
About Bharwan Chicken Pasanda Recipe: This one's a winner on the table. Chicken breasts stuffed with a rich khoya-cheese mixture and drizzled with a luscious coconut-cashew sauce. An array of flavors!
- Total Cook Time 50 mins
- Prep Time 10 mins
- Cook Time 40 mins
- Recipe Servings2
- Difficult
Ingredients of Bharwan Chicken Pasanda
- 4 chicken breasts
- 1 1/2 tsp ginger paste
- 2 tsp garlic paste
- 1/2 tsp yellow chilly powder
- to taste salt
- 1/2 tsp cumin seed
- For the Filling:
- 1/2 cup khoya
- 1/2 cup cheese, grated
- 1/2 cup onions, finely chopped
- Handful of pomegranate seeds, peeled
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
- 1 tbsp chillies, chopped
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1/2 lemon (juiced)
- to taste salt
- For the Chicken:
- 1 tbsp ghee
- Few black cardamoms
- 4-5 green cardamoms
- cinnamon
- 1 piece mace, small
- Handful of black pepper
- For the Sauce:
- 1/2 cup cashew nuts
- 1/2 cup dessicated coconut powder
- 1 tbsp ghee
- 1 cup onions, finely chopped
- 2 tsp garlic paste
- 1 tsp ginger paste
- 1/2 cup yogurt, whipped
- to taste Salt
- 1/2 tsp fennel powder (saunf)
- 1/2 tsp choti elaichi powder
- 1 tsp yellow chilly powder
- A pinch of mace powder (javitri)
- A pinch of nutmeg powder (jaiphal)
- 1/2 tsp black cardamom powder
How to Make Bharwan Chicken Pasanda
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Remove all the fat from the chicken breast. Now take a knife and beat it across. Use the blunt end of the knife to flatten the breast out. This is to be done only on the inside of the breast.
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Mix in all the spices to marinate the chicken.
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Coat the chicken well with the marinade.
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Leave it to marinate for about 10 minutes.
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Now in another bowl add the filling ingredients
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Mix all well.
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Now layout the chicken breasts on a flat surface and stuff it with the mixture.
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Place the mixture at one end and tightly roll the chicken breast.
Prepare Chicken:
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In a pan,heat some ghee.
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Add to it some black cardamom, green cardamom and all the other spices.
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Once the spices begin to splutter add some water.
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Gently lower the chicken pieces into this liquid, on the folded side so that it doesn't open.
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Cover it with foil paper and let it cook for a couple of minutes.
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While the chicken is cooking you can make the sauce.
Prepare the Sauce:
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In the meanwhile dry roast the coconut and cashew nuts.
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Once done add it in a blender with some water and make a nice paste.
3.
Heat some ghee in a pan, add the onions to it and let them brown.
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Add the ginger-garlic paste and let it brown.
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Once done add the yogurt and salt.
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Once the yogurt starts to roast and the separation of fat happens, its time to add the cashew and coconut paste.
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While this roasts add all the other spices and mix well.
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Add about 1/2 cup water to adjust the consistency.
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While this is simmering check on the chicken.
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Add about 2 Tbsp of the chicken liquid into the sauce.
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Once the chicken is cooked take it out on a plate
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Once the curry gains the right thickness take it off the heat and pour it over the chicken.
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Serve hot!