🌶️Indian (Trad)

Chicken Jalfrazi

Name: Chicken Jalfrazi
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 1 chicken breast; 1 tspn medium curry powder; 1 tbspn oil; ¼ tspn hot chilli powder; ½ onion (150 gm prepared weight); ½ tspn coriander seeds; ½ green pepper; ½ tspn ground cumin; 2 tspn green chilli; ¼ tspn salt; 1 clove garlic; 150 ml water; 2 tspn root ginger; 1 tspn tomato purée

Authentic Indian chicken jalfrazi made the traditional way — no shortcuts, just proper home-cooked flavour.

20 min

Prep

40 min

Cook

Medium

Difficulty

Ingredients

Steps

Ingredients

Servings

1 chicken breast
1 tspn medium curry powder
1 tbspn oil
¼ tspn hot chilli powder
½ onion (150 gm prepared weight)
½ tspn coriander seeds
½ green pepper
½ tspn ground cumin
2 tspn green chilli
¼ tspn salt
1 clove garlic
150 ml water
2 tspn root ginger
1 tspn tomato purée

Method

1
Grind the coriander to a powder in a pestle and mortar.
2
Finely chop the onion.
3
De-seed the pepper and slice thinly.
4
Finely chop the ginger and garlic.
5
Cube the chicken.
6
Mix the curry powder, chilli powder, coriander and cumin with 2 tspn of water to make a paste.
7
Add salt and tomato purée to the paste.
8
Heat the oil in a wok.
9
Add the onion, garlic and green chilli and fry for or until the onion is translucent.
10
Add the curry paste, salt and tomato purée and stir fry for about .
11
Add the chicken and cook for , stirring.
12
Add the water and simmer for .
13
Add the ginger and green peppers and cook for .
14
Serve with rice.