Chicken Recipe,
Murg Musallam (Indian Style whole Chicken)
Murg Musallam (Indian Style whole Chicken)
Murg Musallam is very special Mughlai or Awadhi dish. Mainly Murg Musallam was favorite preparation of many Sultans (King) during Mughal Empire. Murg Musallam used to prepare in Special dawat (occasion) in their kingdom. Murg Musallam was a favorite dish of Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughlaq. Here a whole chicken is slowly cooked in very rich and lavish gravy made of poppy seed nuts and onion etc. The chicken is stuffed with mince chicken and eggs. But Today I am showing easy way to make Murg Musallam.
Ingredients:
Whole chicken 700 grams
1/2 brown onion or 1 cup onion chopped
1 grated tomato
2 inch ginger
6-7 garlic pods
6 cashew nuts
6 almonds
1 tsp. turmeric powder
3/4 th tsp. red chili powder
1 tsp. coriander powder
1 tsp. cumin powder
1 tsp. sahi garam masala powder
1 mace
1/4th nutmeg
3 green cardamoms
3 tbsp curd
1/2 lime juice
1 tsp. sugar
salt to test
oil/ghee
Method:
- Take clean and wash whole chicken and cut some diagonal cuts all over the chicken.
- Marinate the chicken with lime juice, curd, red chili powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, sahi garam masala powder, salt and sugar.
- Rub the chicken from inside and outside very well and let it marinate for at least 2 hours.
- Take a pan add some ghee or oil.Temper with mace, nutmeg and cardamoms.
- Add onion and ginger garlic and fry those until it turn light brown in colour.
- After 6-7 minutes add soaked chasew and almonds and continue frying for another 4 minutes.
- Then transfer everything in a mixer jar and blend it into a smooth paste with the help of water.
- Then in the same pan add oil or ghee. Add grated tomato. Cook it for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the prepared paste, salt, red chili powder. Mix it. If you need you can add water.
- Cook it until the oil leaves from the sides.
- Then add the marinated whole chicken. And cover and cook the chicken minimum 40 minutes at low flame.
- In every 10 minutes you need to flip the chicken and continue cook it.
- When chicken is cooked give it carryover cooking time and serve it with some polau. Enjoy
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