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Chicken Shireen

A traditional Indian chicken shireen with coriander seeds, chicken breast, fennel seeds. Cooked from scratch with authentic spices.

20 min
Prep
40 min
Cook
Medium
Difficulty
14
Ingredients
9
Steps

Ingredients

Servings
  • 1 tbspn oil
  • 1 tspn coriander seeds
  • 1 chicken breast
  • ¼ tspn fennel seeds
  • ½ tspn garlic
  • ¼ tspn ground cumin
  • ½ tspn ginger
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 1 tbspn coconut powder (see notes)
  • 1 small tin sliced pineapple
  • 3 tbspn crème fraîche
  • 6 dried apricots
  • 10 gm flaked almonds

Method

  1. 1

    Cube the chicken breast.

  2. 2

    Cut apricots in half. (if very dry soak in a little water or dry cider for as long as possible)

  3. 3

    Dry roast the flaked almonds.

  4. 4

    Drain the pineapple and reserve 100 ml of syrup.

  5. 5

    Cut 2 slices of pineapple into 1 inch pieces.

  6. 6

    Crush the garlic.

  7. 7

    Grate the ginger.

  8. 8

    Make a paste with the garlic, ginger and a little oil in a pestle and mortar.

  9. 9

    Crush the coriander seeds to a powder in a pestle and mortar.

My Notes

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