Kolkata Chicken Chaap Recipe - Slow Cooked Chicken Legs

Kolkata Chicken Chaap Recipe is a lip-smacking recipe of slow cooked marinated chicken legs with bone. Chicken chaap is an adopted Nawabi dish which is renowned in Calcutta/Kolkata due to historical reign of Bengal Nawabs. There are many restaurants in Kolkata with their own famous recipe for a chicken chaap, and here is my version of this favourite dish. Biryani is locally served with a Royal Chicken chaap for sides, without which the biryani is believed to be incomplete.

This is a spicy, flavourful and rich dish that can also be served with roomali roti, pulao or naan. Usually, the chicken legs are marinated overnight and then slow cooked in considerable butter/ghee.

Serve Kolkata Chicken Chaap Recipe (Slow Cooked Marinated Chicken Legs) with Mutton Biryani Recipe and Tomato Onion Cucumber Raita Recipe for a complete meal. 

If you like this recipe, try more recipes like

1. Chicken Mapas Recipe (Chicken in Coconut Milk Curry)
2. Rajasthani Laal Maas Recipe (Mutton In Red Spicy Gravy)
3. Chicken Xacuti Recipe (Goan Chicken)
4. Dhaba Style Country Chicken Recipe