🌶️Indian (Trad)

Chicken Rezala

Name: Chicken Rezala
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 2 tbspn oil; 75 gm onion (prepared weight); ½ tspn fennel seeds; 1 chicken breast; ½ tspn hot chilli powder; 2 tspn green chilli; ¼ tspn ground cinnamon; 1½ tspn rezala spice mix; ¼ tspn turmeric; 1 tspn ground almonds; ¼ tspn fenugreek powder; ½ tspn sugar; ¼ tspn cumin seeds.; 20 approx pistachio nuts; ½ tspn garlic; 100 ml approx evaporated milk; 2 tspn kewra water (optional)

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

20 min

Prep

40 min

Cook

Medium

Difficulty

Ingredients

Steps

Ingredients

Servings

2 tbspn oil
75 gm onion (prepared weight)
½ tspn fennel seeds
1 chicken breast
½ tspn hot chilli powder
2 tspn green chilli
¼ tspn ground cinnamon
1½ tspn rezala spice mix
¼ tspn turmeric
1 tspn ground almonds
¼ tspn fenugreek powder
½ tspn sugar
¼ tspn cumin seeds.
20 approx pistachio nuts
½ tspn garlic
100 ml approx evaporated milk
2 tspn kewra water (optional)

Method

1
Chop the chicken into 1 inch cubes.
2
Finely chop the onion.
3
Crush the garlic and mix with a little oil to make a paste.
4
Finely chop the green chilli.
5
Heat the oil over a medium heat and fry the fennel seeds, chilli powder, cinnamon, turmeric, fenugreek and cumin seeds for .
6
Lower the heat and add the onion and garlic paste and cook, stirring occasionally, for .
7
Raise the heat and add the chicken, green chilli and rezala spice mix and cook, stirring regularly, for .
8
Lower the heat and add the nuts (add a little salt if not using salted nuts), sugar, almonds and a little evaporated milk and simmer for , adding evaporated milk as needed to maintain the required sauce consistency (the sauce should be fairly thick).
9
Turn the heat to low, optionally add the kewra water, and continue to simmer until the chicken is fully cooked (it should be white throughout).
10
Serve with rice and optionally garnish with a few raisins and freshly chopped coriander.