I have faced
some real challenges while cooking Chicken Bharta.
I live in a
complex. We occasionally have Addas (small Get Togethers) in our Para which are
often accompanied by Jal Khabar (Feast). In one such occasion, the members in
our committee decided to put together a menu of Laccha Paratha, Chicken Bharta,
Dal Makhani and Rasogolla. My brother is a fan of Chicken Bharta. Therefore, when
I was having my food along with him; he mockingly challenged me to cook Chicken
Bharta for him. Not any Chicken Bharta but the best Chicken Bharta made by Alibaba,
a restaurant in our locality which specializes in Mughlai recipes. Since I am
an egoist, I accepted my brother’s challenge and promised myself that I will be
successful in removing that smirk from my brother’s face.
I cook occasionally
but before that day I have never cooked chicken Bharta. I collect my recipes
from the net and then experiment with them. Therefore, the very next day I started
my research. I surf the net and collected quite a number of recipes.
Chicken Bharta
is a Mughal dish; it is very flavour full and rich if cooked properly. The chicken
should be minced and the blend of spices should be perfect or else the recipe
will be a total waste. In short, it required a lot of work. But I was not the
one to give up. Therefore, I cooked all the recipes that I have collected. But none
of them were that good. Something was missing from all of them; moreover my
brother ridiculed them. My brother has a special type of disgusting expression
that he gives when my recipes are horrible or moderate. For those recipes, the
horrifying, disgusting expression was more frequent than a positive review.
I was on the
verge of giving up, until I found a cooking blog which has an awesome picture of a dish containing Chicken Bharta. The picture
was quite similar to the Chicken Bharta which I had in Alibaba. I quickly jotted down the
recipe in my cooking diary and went on to cooking it the very next day. I complemented
the recipe with a dish of Jeera Rice which I got from one of my friend’s mother,
Archana aunty. The recipe was fantabulous and I was ecstatic as my brother liked
it and he gave a nod of approval. The gravy was of right consistent; the spices
were of right proportion. I loved it.
P.S- for everyone
else, the best Chicken Bharta recipe is available in the given link-
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