How to Prepare Yummy Murgh Mumtaz

How to Prepare Yummy Murgh Mumtaz Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Murgh Mumtaz. Chicken Mumtaz Recipe - Murgh Mumtaz Mahal. This particular recipe, as I said, is from Sailana. Sailana is a princely state in central India, now Madhya Pradesh and had been ruled by Hindu Kings.

Preparation time includes the time required for the chicken to marinate.

NOTE: According to the original recipe, the cream is to be added to the gravy before pouring it onto the chicken.

Skin the chicken and cut each quarter in two.

You can have Murgh Mumtaz using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Murgh Mumtaz

1. Prepare 4 of chicken whole legs,make a few slits on each piece.

2. It’s 100 gm of onions, sliced.

3. It’s 15 gm of ginger sliced.

4. Prepare 100 gm of khoya.

5. You need 200 gm of yogurt,whisk until smooth.

6. Prepare 50 gm of cashew nuts,grind into smooth paste.

7. It’s 2 tbsp of clarified butter (ghee).

8. It’s 2 tbsp of kewra water.

9. You need 3 pinches of saffron,dissolved in 1& 1/2 tbsp hot water.

10. It’s to taste of salt.

11. Prepare as needed of oil for deep frying.

12. Prepare of Ingredients for spice mix (dry roast and grind to fine paste).

13. It’s 4 of dry red chillies.

14. It’s 1 of &1/2 tsp coriander seeds.

15. It’s 1 of &1/2 tsp cumin seeds.

16. Prepare 6 of green cardamom.

Soak the saffron strands in the hot milk and set aside.

Skin the chicken and cut each quarter in two.

Soak the saffron strands in the warm lowfat milk and set aside.

Skin the chicken and cut each quarter in two.

Murgh Mumtaz step by step

1. In a fry pan,heat oil and deep fry the sliced onions until golden brown.Remove and keep aside..

2. In the same oil, deep fry the sliced ginger until golden brown.Remove and set aside along with the fried onions..

3. Roughly crush the fried onions and ginger once cool..

4. In a pan,heat clarified butter along with 2 tbsp of oil in which the onions were fried..

5. Add chicken pieces. saute on medium heat until the pieces turn white; add khoa along with the spice mix. Stir through..

6. Add enough water to cover the chicken. Cook on low flame until chicken is half done..

7. Add salt along with whisked yogurt and cashew nut paste. Stir through and let cook until chicken is almost done..

8. Add kewra water, saffron along with the water it is dissolved in,crushed onions and ginger;continue cooking until the chicken is tender and the sauce thickens to the desired consistency.Turn heat off..

9. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and a dash of lemon juice..

10. Serve hot with Indian flatbread..

Soak the saffron strands in the hot milk and set aside.

Thus, Murgh Mussalam literally means 'whole chicken'.

It is a dish that consists of whole chicken.

Slice of homemade cheese stuffed with mint & spices, deep fried in garbanzo flour Murg Mumtaz Mahal is a royal chicken curry recipe dedicated to Mumtaz, The beautiful wife of Shah Jahan.

This recipe is made in pure ghee.