Murgh Mussalim
I have a love hate relationship with this dish. I love to eat it but hate to make it! OK, to be fair, I just made it for the very first time in May 2025—had a fun cooking lesson with Nanu. Nana-jaan helped out too since he had to read and translate the recipe, written in Urdu and too faded for Nanu to see! In the process, I also learned some new Urdu words, most notably: "Mussalim": whole. "Hazbé zaroorat": as needed (how fun is that to say!) Anyway, as Nanu says, this is a royal dish. It's definitely a fancy one, and worth trying once in a while since it's so unique. Beautiful combination of spices and flavours. This pic doesn't do it any justice. Especially since it doesn't show the best part, all the extra masala that surround the chicken, I should have spooned it into the platter for this pic -but I was too lazy after all that cooking! This recipe was taken from Nanu's original brown leather cooking book - she learned it her cooking lessons before getting married.
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