Chicken Shorba
Chicken shorba is a popular Indian-style clear chicken broth made by slow-cooking chicken with various herbs and spices.
Yield: 3
Materials
- 500 gms Chicken Pieces with bones
- 1 no Onion medium
- 7-8 nos Garlic Cloves
- 1 inch Ginger
- 2-3 stalks Coriander Leaves
- 1 tablespoon Butter
- 1 no Bay Leaf
- 7-8 nos Black Peppercorn
- 2 nos Clove
- ½ inch Cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 no Lemon cut in to round thin slices
Instructions
- Take half onion, garlic cloves, ginger and coriander leaves in a grinder and make a smooth paste.
- Melt butter in a pressure cooker and add dry whole spices like bay leaf, black peppercorn, clove.
- Add chopped onion (half onion) and sauté it.
- Next add chicken bone pieces and keep on cooking under low to medium flame.
- After cooking for few minutes add turmeric powder and salt to the chicken pieces and sauté for few more minutes.
- Add the onion-ginger-garlic-coriander paste and combine well until the raw smell disappeared.
- After that add 4 cups of water into the pressure cooker, check the seasoning.
- Close the lid of pressure cooker and wait for 3-4 whistles. Turn off the heat.
- Once the pressure is released open the lid and strain the broth.
- Shred the chicken pieces and discard the bones. Keep aside the shredded chicken pieces.
- Now serve the strained broth in bowls and top it with few shredded chicken and lemon roundels.