Pakistani
Murgh Cholay (Chicken and Chickpea Salan)
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Murgh Cholay (Chicken and Chickpea Salan) is Pakistani 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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Soak the chickpeas overnight, then boil them in the water with salt for 40 minutes, or pressure cook 15 minutes, until tender. Keep the liquid.
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Heat the oil, fry the sliced onion until deep golden, then add the ginger garlic paste and cook 1 minute.
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Add the chicken and sear 6 minutes, then lower the heat and stir in the whisked yogurt with the turmeric, red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin and salt.
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Add the chopped tomato and bhunno 10 minutes until the masala tightens and the oil separates.
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Add the drained chickpeas and two cups of their cooking liquid, cover, and simmer 15 minutes until the chicken is tender and the gravy has body.
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Finish with garam masala, chaat masala, slit green chilies and coriander leaves. Serve 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 Murgh Cholay (Chicken and Chickpea Salan), 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. Murgh Cholay (Chicken and Chickpea Salan) 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
- 550 kcal
- Protein
- 33 g
- Carbs
- 30 g
- Fat
- 33 g
- Fiber
- 7 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 460 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Murgh Cholay (Chicken and Chickpea Salan) takes about 55 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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