Pakistani
Chicken Karahi
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Crush the coriander seeds, peppercorns and cumin seeds coarsely in a mortar. A karahi is built on cracked whole spice, not powder.
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Heat the oil in a wide karahi or wok until it shimmers, add the chicken and the ginger garlic paste, and fry hard over high heat for 10 minutes until the pieces are browned and their liquid has gone.
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Add the quartered tomatoes and salt, cover, and cook 8 minutes until the skins slip off. Fish out the loose skins.
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Uncover, raise the heat and bhunno 8 minutes, pressing the tomatoes down, until the water cooks off and the oil pools bright at the edges.
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Stir in the yogurt, crushed spices and red chili powder and cook 4 minutes more until the masala clings to the chicken rather than pooling under it.
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Throw in the julienned ginger, slit green chilies, crushed fenugreek leaves, garam masala and coriander leaves, squeeze the lemon over, and serve straight from the pan with hot naan.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Karahi, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Karahi carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 680 kcal
- Protein
- 38 g
- Carbs
- 9 g
- Fat
- 55 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 15 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Karahi takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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