Dhakai-Morog-Polao-Bengali-Recipe

Dhakai Morog Polao Recipe

Ideal For

Lunch

Food Type

Non-Veg

Ingredients

How To Cook

  • 2 kg chicken (clean and cut into roughly 4 pieces)
  • 500 g rice
  • 4 onions
  • 1 tbsp Ginger Paste
  • 1 tbsp Garlic Paste
  • 8 Green Chilies
  • 8 Alu Bukhara
  • 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 1 tbsp Poppy Seeds
  • 10 cashewnuts
  • 100 ml Doctors’ Choice Refined Soybean Oil
  • 1 tbsp Ghee
  • 2 tbsp Mawa
  • 200 ml Plain Curd
  • 100 ml Mishti Dahi
  • ½ cup Milk
  • 10 Saffron Strings
  • 1 tsp Garam Masala
  • 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
  • 2 tsp Salt to taste

For Tempering:

  • 4 dry red chili
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 inch cardamom stick
  • 4 green cardamoms
  • 2 black cardamoms

For the Garam Masala:

  • 1-inch Cardamom Stick
  • 4 Green Cardamoms
  • 2 Black Cardamoms
  • 1 Mace
  • 1 Nutmeg
  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
  • 8 cloves
  • 10 black peppers
  • Dry roast the cinamon stick, green cardamom, black cardamom, mace, nutmeg, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, clove, and black pepper till they all emit a tantalizing aroma
  • Switch off the flame and wait for the spices to cool down
  • Gather the spices and make them all into a powder
  • Wash and clean the meat and marinate the same with ½ tsp of salt
  • Wash and soak the rice in water for 30 mins
  • Slice 3 onions and make a paste of 2
  • Heat Doctors’ Choice Refined Soybean Oil in a kadhai and add 1 tsp of ghee. Fry the onions in small batches until they are crisp
  • Add 1 more tsp of ghee to the oil
  • Temper the ghee and oil with red chili, bay leaf, cinnamon stick, green cardamom, and black cardamom
  • Add the onion paste to the pan and cook till its brown
  • Add the ginger and garlic paste along with 4 green chilies. Cook for roughly 1-2 mins
  • Add both the types of curd and mix it well
  • Add red chili powder, turmeric powder, salt, and ½ tsp garam masala
  • Add 1 tsp lemon juice
  • Add the chicken pieces and cover the pan
  • Turn the meat chunks at intervals. Cook the mixture for 20 mins on a low flame
  • Check the chicken at short intervals by pricking it with a fork
  • Cook the chicken till its ⅔ cooked and later switch the flame off
  • Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken from the mixture and keep the gravy in the pan
  • Add the soaked rice to the pan. Mix it well and add boiling water to it
  • Make sure to adjust the spices except the garam masala
  • Cover the pan and cook it all for roughly 15 mins
  • Once the rice is ⅔ cooked, take out half of the rice and place cooked chicken chunks over the rice
  • Toss in the rest of the alu bukhara, half of the birista, ¼ tsp garam masala, ½ portion of mawa, and half of the milk and saffron mixture
  • Add lemon juice to the mixture as well
  • Now top it with the remaining rice
  • Add half of the birista, 1.2 portion mawa, ½ of milk and saffron mixture. Also add a few green chilies
  • Add 1 tsp ghee
  • Cover the pan with a lid and place a weight over the lid
  • Keep the flame on the low and cook for 10 mins
  • After 10 mins turn the flame off
  • Open the lid and mix all well before serving
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