All you need
One chicken cut into small pieces
6-7 cloves of Garlic
1 1/2 inch piece of Ginger
2 Onions ground to a paste
1 cup of Vinegar
1/2 cup Oil
2-3 Whole Dried Red Chilies
1 pinch whole cumin seeds
Salt
Method
- Make a paste of ginger and garlic.
- Wash chicken and pat dry chicken, there should not be any water left.
- Marinate the chicken with ginger-garlic paste and vinegar for at least 30 minutes. Longer the better.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Add cumin seeds and whole red chilies. Add onion paste.
- After the onion is fried, add chicken along with its marinade.
- Add salt, mix and cook in the pressure cooker till chicken is done. DO NOT ADD WATER.
- Open the pressure cooker lid, and there will a lot of water all released by the chicken.
- Turn on heat to high flame and reduce water till there is none left. Then the trick is to keep on frying and stirring often and burning up the chicken a little to bring out the taste. In Bengali, it is called "char charano". Done!
