Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lentils chicken curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lentils Chicken curry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Lentils Chicken curry is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Put all ingredients but the cilantro in the crock pot. Leave to cook overnight or start in the morning for dinner. Taste to season with salt and pepper and add fresh cilantro. This delicious lentil chicken curry is made with yellow lentils, curry powder, and coconut milk along with a few other pantry staples.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lentils chicken curry using 25 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lentils Chicken curry:
- Prepare 500 gram chicken pieces
- Get 2 tbsp broken wheat (dalia)
- Prepare 2 tbsp toor dal
- Make ready 2 tbsp chana dal (Bengal gram dal)
- Make ready 2 tbsp masoor dal
- Take 1 cup sliced onion (fried)
- Get 1 tbsp ginger paste
- Make ready 1 tbsp garlic paste
- Take 2 nos bay leaf
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Get 2 cardamom
- Prepare 1/2 javitri (mace)
- Take 3 tbsp oil + 2 tbsp
- Prepare 2 tbsp ghee
- Prepare To taste Salt
- Take 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- Take 2 nos green chilli
- Get 1 tbsp coriander powder
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1 tsp kasuri methi
- Make ready 1 tsp garam masala powder
- Get As required Coriander leaves chopped
- Take 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp crushed black pepper
- Get 1 tsp sugar
Increase the heat to high and bring to a boil. In another pot, you cook your chicken just like you would for a regular chicken curry. Once the chicken is half way done, you add in the chana dal alongside the water which you boiled the dal in, until the chicken is done. Finally, we'll add a tadka - a tempering - of beautiful slivers of onions, cumin seeds and dried red chillis.
Instructions to make Lentils Chicken curry:
- Wash all dals and put them in a pressure cooker with water, add salt to taste, turmeric powder 1 tsp. Cook it for 2 whistles. Heat oil in a kadai fry onion like (beresta) golden brown in colour. Keep the fried onions aside.
- Marinate the chicken with salt, turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste and keep it aside for about 10 minutes, then fry it to light brown in colour. Heat ghee in a kadai and to that add half of the fried onion, then add Kashmiri chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, whole garam masala. Cook it for 1 minute then add coriander powder and cumin powder, salt to taste, sugar and green chilli.
- Then pour the boiled dal, mix well, then add fried chicken and water. Mix it well, then cover it and cook it in low flame until the chicken is tender, stir it at intervals. Sprinkle some coriander leaves chopped, garam masala powder and kasuri methi. Garnish with fried onion and coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice, roti, Paratha etc.
Once the chicken is half way done, you add in the chana dal alongside the water which you boiled the dal in, until the chicken is done. Finally, we'll add a tadka - a tempering - of beautiful slivers of onions, cumin seeds and dried red chillis. Curried Chicken and Lentils with Basmati Rice is packed with flavor. The red chicken curry forms a flavorful broth that soaks into the rice beautifully. Curried Chicken and Lentils with Basmati Rice Curried chicken and lentils served over basmati rice is comfort food to me.
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