Northeast Indian
Chicken with Perilla Leaves (Manipuri-Style)
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Chicken with Perilla Leaves (Manipuri-Style) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the mustard oil in a pot until it just smokes, then let it cool slightly.
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Add the sliced onion, ginger and garlic and fry 6 minutes until softened and golden.
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Add the chicken and turmeric and sear over high heat 8 minutes, turning the pieces, until browned.
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Add the water, slit green chilies and salt, bring to a boil, then cover and simmer 20 minutes until the chicken is tender.
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Roughly tear the perilla leaves and stir them in for the final 3 minutes of cooking; their distinctive anise-like fragrance fades quickly, so they go in last, not with the aromatics.
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Serve hot with plain rice.
Serve it with
A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken with Perilla Leaves (Manipuri-Style), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Chicken with Perilla Leaves (Manipuri-Style) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| 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
- 300 kcal
- Protein
- 28 g
- Carbs
- 6 g
- Fat
- 18 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken with Perilla Leaves (Manipuri-Style) takes about 50 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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