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Coriander Chicken
Boneless chicken marinated in a gravy of yoghurt and coriander
- 40 min hands-on
- 50 min total
- Serves 3
- about $4–7 a serving
- Chicken or turkey
- skillet
- mixer
Open it in the app → Scaled list, tap-off ingredients, and cook mode with timers. The iPhone app is coming soon; the web mockup runs it now.
Ingredients serves 3
- 500gboneless chicken breast
- 250gfat free yoghurt
- 250gcoriander leaves
- Mustard oil / Sunflower oilcheck the label: may contain gluten
- Sugar
- Ginger
- Garlic
- 2 mediumonions
- Green chillies
- Garam masala
- ⅔Cardamom pods
- 1Bayleaf
- 1Cinnamom stick
Method one step at a time, with timers in the app
- Cut the boneless chicken into small bite sized pieces.
- In a mixer, put 250g coriander leaves, 2/3 green chillies, 250g yoghurt, 20g ginger, 9/10 cloves of garlic, 2 medium sized onions and mix well.
- Add the green chillies according to your taste.
- Pour half of the mixture from step 2 into a bowl and mix it thoroughly with the chicken.
- Into this chicken mixture add 1 tbsp Garam Masala and salt to taste.
- Keep the resulting marinated chicken aside for about 30 minutes.⏱ 30 min
- In a frying pan add 3 tbsp of either mustard oil or sunflower oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add 1 tbsp sugar and cook until the sugar melts into the oil.
- Add 2/3 cardamom pods, 1 small cinnamon stick, and 1 bayleaf into the hot oil.
- Simmer for about 1 minute, then lower the heat to medium.⏱ 1 min
- On medium heat, add the marinated chicken mixture and cook till oil starts separating from the chicken.
- Add salt to taste and keep stirring the chicken to make sure it does not burn or stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Once the oil separates, add the remaining mixture which was left behind after step 4.
- Stir until it has a thick consistency. Serve with naan or rice.
Allergens, with the fine print read
- ⚠Contains dairy.
- ?Check the label: Mustard oil / Sunflower oil may contain gluten, depending on the brand.
- !These tags haven't had their final human sign-off yet. Always read the label.
Original recipe by chetan-basuray, published in the public domain by Public Domain Recipes (Unlicense). Shown as written; not yet tested in the Socrabites kitchen.