Being born and brought up in the good old city of joy, the craze of putting aloos (potatoes) in everything we cook is something that I practice with my cooking as well. The importance of aloos in biryani and curries are unmatched!
Last evening I experimented a chicken kosha (with aloos of course). Chicken Kosha is a very popular dish of West Bengal which refers to a chicken curry cooked with a blend of multiple spices and extremely little amount of water to get the thick gravy texture.
Okay! You must be wondering how and why I have all this enthusiasm to cook such complicated looking dishes on weekdays, but this is just to prove to you how easy this is! It barely takes an hour to cook and the joy of good home food after a long day is incomparable.
Chicken is one of my favorite meats to cook with because of the extreme ease and low cooking time for the same. This particular recipe is super fun to experiment, because you can modify it very slightly and get at least three different types of curries- regular chicken curry, chicken kosha and chicken korma.
Chicken Kosha tastes great with rotis, lachcha paranthas or yellow rice. What's amazing is that this curry tastes even better the next day. We ate it with rotis last night and today I quickly put together some yellow rice and raita (yoghurt and vegetables) to go with the left overs.
My mother used to pack this in a 'dabba' (tiffin carrier) for me as lunch. It used to be brought in a little bag for me after school and I would eat it while waiting for my elder sister to finish school.
I've always been a rice eater, so today's leftovers with the yellow rice definitely topped the rotis from last night.
It's amazing how many unique dishes my country has and I am so proud to be able to cook my special home food that I grew up on and share the recipes with people all around the Globe.
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