A very simple form of Chicken Curry prepared with limited and easily available spices; Goalondo Steamer Curry is bliss. Let me confess, I do not have any first-hand information about the said Chicken Curry. Neither I am from Bangladesh nor I am a hostorian. However, upon asking and through a bit of secondary details what I found is interesting.
A simple chicken curry the boatmen used to cook with the limited spices is now popular as Goalondo Steamer Curry o Goalondo Ghater Murgi. This is a simplest form of chicken chicken curry. It can be named anything else as well however, the dish get popularized by the boatmen from Goalondo Ghat. Goalondo a small town in “Opar Bangla” a.k.a Bangladesh. This small town is located at Rajbari District in Bangladesh and situated on the bank of river Padma.
The story of Goalondo Steamer Curry!
Here's how I cook Goalondo Steamer Curry at Debjanir Rannaghar!
Goalondo Steamer Curry or Boatman Style Chicken Curry
A light chicken or Goalondo Steamer Curry is a famous Bengali Chicken Dish
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 3-4 People 1x
- Category: Chicken
- Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients
- Chicken: 500 g (Medium Pieces)
- Onion: 2
- Garlic: 8-10 cloves
- Ginger: 2”
- Dry Red Chillies: 4-6
- Green Chilli: 4-5 (according to taste)
- Turmeric Powder: 2 Tsp
- Mustard Oil: ½ cup
- Salt to taste
Instructions
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[/url] - Clean chicken pieces properly.
- Roughly chop Onion, garlic, ginger and green chilies and prepare a coarse powder of dry chilies*.
- Marinate chicken pieces with all the ingredients mentioned except salt.
- This is, however, my personal opinion to not to add salt to cooking.
- Leave it for at least one hour but I prefer to marinate overnight.
- Take the marinated chicken in a thick bottom pan and sauté on high flame for 5 minutes.
- Then cook on low flame till the chicken turns tender.
- No need to add water; chicken will be cooked in its own juice.
- Switch the flame off and give the curry a standing time of 10 minutes.
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Don’t add any souring agent like tomato, curd, tamarind etc.
Don’t add any masala like garam masala, coriander powder etc.
*It’s better to add semi-grinded Red chilies for the actual flavor instead of readily available red chili powder
Don’t add water as the natural moisture of the chicken and the basic masalas is enough.
Last but not the least; don’t replace Mustard oil with any other variety as it’s the signature ingredient for Goalondo Steamer Curry.
Few More Chicken Recipes from Debjanir Rannaghar!
- Bengali Desi Murgir Dum (Also known as Bengali Country chicken curry)
- Bangladeshi Chicken Roast (Also known as Dhakai Roast)
- Restaurant Style Chicken Malai Kebab (also known as Reshmi Kebab)
- Kolkata style Chicken Bharta (Also known as Murg Bharta)
- Orange and Herb Roasted Chicken and Vegetables (Also known as Roast Chicken)
- Dak Bungalow Chicken Curry (also known as Chicken Dak Bungalow)
- Chicken Chaap (Also known as Chaap Bhaja)
- Aam Kasundi Murgi (also known as Bengali Style Chicken in Mango Mustard Sauce)
- Pish-Pash aka Pish Pash (Also known as Indian Rice and Chicken Hotchpotch)
- Doi Murgi (Also known as Kolkata style Doi Chicken)
- Tandoori Chicken (Also known as Tanduri Murg)
- Robibarer Murgir Jhol (Also known as Bengali Runny Chicken Curry)
- Kancha Lonka Murgi (Also known as Bengali Chicken Curry cooked with the skin of Green Chili Paste)
- Authentic Green Thai Chicken Curry (Also known as Chicken Green Curry)
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Amitabh Hazarika says
Oh, truly amazing recipe, simple yet so finger licking..!! Thanx a lot for sharing.. tried last weekend at home N everyone in the family appreciated.
Sudeep Mukherjee says
I make this curry with shrimp paste and a double dose of red hot chilli paste.
The other thing that I do to get the marinade in is to gently pound the chicken pieces before marinating.
The kucho chingri paste adds to the taste.
Have also tried with Bombay duck/loitta in the chicken.
Pritha Ray Saha says
Hi. Would you please share how you prepare the kucho chingri paste? Could it be made with larger prawns?
Debjani says
Kucho stands for small 🙂 .. It is better to use small prawns or shrimps for the right texture. I'll for sure share the recipe soon.
Shan says
The MAIN ingredient of this chicken curry (besides the chicken) is shrimp paste. Even better dried shrimp paste (shNutki). You seemed to have missed that
Debjani says
Not really. Do try it once in Bangladesh.