Chicken Kali Mirch Recipe | How to make Kali Mirch Chicken Step by Step | Murgh Kali Mirch

Best Chicken Kali Mirch Recipe | How to make Kali Mirch Chicken Recipe step by step | Murgh Kali mirch recipe. Chicken Kali Mirch is a flavourful dish in which we cook chicken in yogurt and black pepper gravy. The Kali mirch chicken in a white gravy, was in my To-Do list since quite a sometime but could make it due to some or the other reason. Now, when I have made it, let me tell you, this chicken kali mirch recipe is an ultimate black pepper chicken curry you will love for sure. Usually, we serve murgh kali mirch with any Indian flatbreads like naan, lachha paratha, Phulkas or roomali roti. However, it goes, perfect with jeera rice, zafrani pulao or peas pulao. Here is how to make chicken kali mirch at home…

Best Chicken Kali Mirch Recipe (Murgh Kali Mirch)

Last week when I came to know about one of my immensely dear friend flying to Bangalore from Dubai to meet us, I was desperate to see her as we haven’t met before. I met her virtually in one of the food forum, gradually became very good friends. She is a hardcore Non vegetarian, when I invited her to my home, all I had in my mind is to make chicken and mutton for her. That’s when I decided to make this super delicious black pepper chicken curry. Mutton dish that I made for her is yet to be disclosed, I shall be posting it real soon.

What is Chicken Kali Mirch?

Chicken kali mirch also called as black pepper chicken curry or murgh kali mirch. Murgh kali mirch is delicious peppery curry of marinated chicken cooked in black pepper yogurt gravy. This lucious rich kali mirch chicken in a white gravy is truly an easy to cook dish and we can prepare it in minimum time, when we expect the guests at home. It is an ideal non vegetarian curry dish serve during Eid festival or parties. If you haven’t, tried this chicken kali mirch recipe  yes, then up your sleeves and do try it now. Definitely, this kali mirch chicken recipe will in your hit list of weekend meal plan.

Ingredients Used to make kali mirch chicken recipe?

To begin with, this lovely spicy murgh kali mirch recipe do not require long list of ingredients. Not to mention, but Chicken and black pepper are two main ingredients of this curry preparation. The black pepper (kali mirch) and green chillies imparts beautiful and subtle spiciness to the dish. Specifically, i would like to mention here that please do not reduce the amount of kali mirch here. Rather, decrease the amout of green chillies if you want it to be less spicy.

The other important ingredient that equally gives the beautiful flavour to murgh kali mirch is good amount of yogurt and little sugar. It also, balances the spiciness very well. Coming to another group of fresh ingredients, we need fresh cream, ginger paste, garlic paste, green chillies and chopped onions. The spices powder we are using here are just coriander powder and garam masala powder. Lastly, we want to use whole spices . i.e. bay leaves, cloves, cardamoms and shajeera(caraway seeds).

Most noteworthy, kasuri methi gives the life to the dish blending superbly with black pepper to just right, that will hit your palate. The taste of this succent chicken kali mirch recipe will linger definitely for long.

What to pair with kali mirch chicken curry?

The rich chicken kali mirch (Indian pepper chicken) couples up perfect with any Indian flat breads like kasuri naan, butter naan, lachha parathas, plain kulcha, phulkas parathas and roomali rotis.Furthermore, this black pepper chicken curry tastes best with dinner rolls and even mumbai pav or bun.

Significantly, all the rice preparations pairs best with this curry. Easy zafrani pulao, jeera rice, Kashmiri pulao, peas pulao, Ghee rice and khushka are to name a few from the rice recipe list.

So all in all, this black pepper chicken curry brings out the best of the flavours with any of the accompaniment we serve along with it.

Some of the best chicken recipes and eid recipes you might want to try are:

Dum chicken

Hariyali murgh Korma

Butter Chicken

Chicken Tikka masala

Hyderabadi Murgh Dum Biryani

Chicken Muthiya

Best Chicken kali mirch Recipe (Black pepper Chicken Curry recipe) below:

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How to make chicken kali mirch recipe step by step pictures:

1. Firstly, marinate chicken with the ingredients mentioned under marination, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

 

2. While the chicken is marinating, coarsely crush the black pepper corns in mortar & pestle

 

3. When chicken is ready to be cooked after marination, then in a heavy bottom pan or handi, heat ghee or oil in a pan or handi.

 

4. Then, add marinated chicken pieces, fry on high heat until they are nicely seared and light golden brown.

 

5. Once the chicken turn light brown, take the fried chicken out and reserve.

 

6. Now, in the same handi, add bay leaf, green cardamom, and cloves, fry for few seconds

 

7. Then add shahjeera and fry for another few seconds

 

8. Now, add onions and fry until soft and translucent.

 

9. When the onion turns pink and soft, then add ginger and garlic paste, sautè for few minutes.

 

10. Once the raw smell of onion ginger garlic masala goes off, then, add whisked yoghurt and stir until blended well.

 

11. Then, add coriander powder, green chili slit, coarsely crushed peppercorn and  mix well.

 

12. Now, add fried chicken salt and mix. Cover and cook until chicken tender. Adjust the consistency of the chicken gravy only if required.

 

13. Lastly, add garam masala powder, cream, sugar, kasoori methi and cook for another minute. Take it off the heat

 

14. Chicken kali Mirch is ready to serve. Dish out and serve hot with lachcha paratha or phulkas or nan or pulao of your choice