Dahi Chicken recipe – Bengali Doi Murgi recipe – Indian Yogurt Chicken Curry recipe

Dahi Chicken is a chicken curry recipe made with yogurt and a few simple ingredients. This chicken curry recipe is also popular as dahi wala chicken in North Indian cuisine and Doi murgi in Bengali cuisine. This chicken curry goes best with Plain rice, Pulao, Jeera rice, roti, chapathi, paratha, or garlic naan.

For making dahi chicken, chicken is first marinated with well-beaten yogurt or curd and lime juice both make the chicken soft and juicy. I make this chicken curry in vegetable oil. First, temper the oil with bay leaves & whole garam masala. Then the chicken is made of fried onion, garlic, green chilli, yogurt, and cashew nuts paste with black pepper, garam masala, and red chilli powder.

To make this chicken curry recipe, adding cashews to dilute the tanginess of the curd or dahi, and make a creamy white gravy. Yogurt and cashews also make a very less spicy gravy. Here I also used my homemade garam masala powder which also enhances the taste and flavor of this yogurt chicken curry recipe. That homemade garam masala is unique and made my dahi chicken different from other traditional Indian style chicken curry recipes which are also cooked with yogurt. 

Dahi Chicken recipe is also named Doi chicken or Doi Murgi in Bengali cuisine. In West Bengal, dahi chicken has several local names, “Doi diye chicken curry” and “Doi diye mugrir mangsho” is a traditional Bengali style name. “Dahi” is a Hindi term and in Bengali, dahi means “Doi, here Tok doi” (an unflavoured no sweet yogurt or curd), and “Chicken” means “Murgi” in the Bengali language. This yogurt chicken curry is also a popular dish in Pakistan known as Dahi Murg / Dahi wala murgh in Pakistani cuisine.

Try this simple dahi chicken recipe at home. Hope my step by step instructions will give you the best result from the start to the end of this recipe. Let me know your valuable feedback about this recipe. Write your comment in the comment section below.

Few more curd based chicken curry recipes

Chicken Korma recipe

Bengali Chicken rezala recipe

Bengali Chicken curry recipe(Chicken Kosha)

Aloo diye Murgir Jhol

How to make Dahi chicken (Doi murgi) recipe step by step with pictures

Preparation

○ For making this chicken curry, first clean the chicken and thoroughly wash it with water.

○Then marinate the chicken with 6 tbsp of whisked yogurt and lemon juice.

○ Coarsely grind the ginger, garlic, green chillies, cashew nuts, and whole garam masalas (cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg & whole black peppercorns).

○Then again grind the masala with 1 chopped onion and 2 tbsp curd, and add little water until making a sauce-like creamy puree.

To make Dahi Chicken Gravy

○ For making this chicken gravy, first heat a pan, and add oil(i used mustard oil, you can use any vegetable oil or butter or ghee).

○ Once the oil is hot, put 2 thinly sliced onions in the oil.

○Fry the onion until onion gets soft and succulent.

○ Add bay leaves and whole garam masalas (cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and black peppercorn / Kali mirchi) to the pan. 

○Fry the onion until golden, add the ground masala puree mix with 1/4 cup of water, and mix it well with onions.

○ Add 1/2 tsp chilli powder, 1/2 tsp sugar, and salt seasoning, and mix them well with the masalas. 

○Fry/sauté the masala until masalas raw smell goes off and the masala releases oil from the sides too. 

○ Add the marinated chicken into the pan, and mix it well with the masalas.

○ Stir well until chicken is nicely coated with the masalas. Cook it on medium heat by covering the pan.

○ Stir it often and cook it until the chicken gets soft & tender. Add little water, and mix it well. Cover the pan.

○ Let the gravy boil, add a little salt if needed, mix well, and cook the chicken for a minute. Turn off the heat.

○ Dahi chicken (Indian style Yogurt chicken curry) is ready, enjoy with roti, Pulao, plain rice, or Bengali fried rice.