Bhogar is the Indian cookery term for a process of basting braised food in a covered pan. You shake the covered pan to get the juices jumping. Steam is released, and the sauce jumps up onto the meat, basting it. Then you carry on cooking on a low heat, or in the oven.
Cooking on the stovetop, you’d raise the heat to high (just for a very short while - dont want to burn anything) to get some steam going, shake the pan in a kind of outwards and downwards motion, and then straight away turn the heat right down.
Cooking in the oven in a covered casserole dish, you’d just take the dish out and give it a shake, then pot it back.
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