Morog Polao

Chicken in a mild milky sauce with ghee-fried polao rice — the Old Dhaka invitation dish.

⏱ 60 min · 🍽️ Serves 5
Cost at home ≈ ৳780.00 · by delivery ≈ ৳1,300.00

Costs are rough Dhaka market estimates (2026) and vary by area and season. Delivery price = this site's menu price × servings.

Ingredients

• deshi or sonali chicken — 1.2 kg
• aromatic polao rice (chinigura) — 500 g
• yogurt — ½ cup, milk — 1 cup
• onion paste and fried onions — 1 cup
• ginger-garlic paste — 2 tbsp
• cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaf, a little sugar
• ghee — 5 tbsp, green chillies — 6

Method

1. Coat the chicken in yogurt, onion-ginger-garlic paste and salt; sauté in ghee and cook 25 minutes.
2. Add milk, a pinch of sugar and chillies to make a thick sauce; lift the chicken out.
3. In another pot fry the whole spices and rice in ghee.
4. Add twice the volume of hot water plus the chicken sauce and cook until nearly done.
5. Tuck the chicken into the rice, scatter fried onions and steam on low heat 15 minutes.

All food and drinks are halal

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