Murgh Musallam Recipe

Before going to Murgh musallam recipe let us dive into the history of chicken. Chicken dishes are loved all over the world whether it is western countries or our India.

Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world. Since it is easy o cook, that is why it has been adopted in all types of cuisines all over the world. Chicken can be prepared in many ways including baking, grilling, barbecuing, frying, boiling and many other ways depending upon the purpose.

Chicken draws its footprints from Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC. Chicken was the most common meats available in the middle ages. For thousands of years, chicken has been eaten across most of the Eastern hemisphere.

Talking about the history of Indian cuisine, the chicken entered in kitchens during the Mughal era. Mughal cuisine consists of dishes cooked in the Medieval Indo-Persian culture of the Mughal empire. Mughlai cuisine is strongly influenced by the Turko-Persian cuisine of central Asia.

Murgh Musallam is a mouth-watering delicacy from the Mughal era. Normally the chicken is cooked whole with marination of ginger-garlic paste, red chili, curd, and other spices. But today I am preparing this dish with cut chicken pieces.