This is a very simple, traditional, and famous recipe from Lahore (Pakistan). Lahore in Pakistan is famous for meat lovers, varieties of meat recipes are available as street food. In Lahori chicken, The marinated chicken chunks are fried and then simmered in a thick gravy made with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger and added with yogurt finished in a warm, spicy, ginger-coriander flavored sauce this is How to Make Lahori Chicken.
Equipment required
- Grinder
- Mixing bowl
- Wok/Kadai
Ingredients for Lahori chicken
- Chicken-500gm
- Oil-4 tbsp
- Onion-2
- Tomato-3
- Green chilies-6
- Coriander leaves
- Ginger-1 inch
- Curd-1/2 cup
- Ginger-garlic paste-2tbsp
- Peppercorn powder-1/2 tbsp
- cilantro leaves
- Chili flakes-1/2 tbsp
- Lemon-1
- Turmeric powder-1 tbsp
- Red chili powder-1/2 tbsp
- Coriander powder-1 tbsp
- Kasuri methi-1 tbsp
- Salt
How to Make Lahori Chicken
First, we clean and wash the chicken chunks for making Lahori chicken
Take a wok and heat 3-4 tbsp oil
Add the chicken chunks and fry in medium flame, it will take 7-8 minutes, once fried on one side then turn it over to another side.
Cut onions into medium pieces and put them in a grinder.
And make a fine paste by adding little water.
Take out the chicken chunks which are fried from the oil
Add the onion paste in the same oil and fry it till the water is fully dry and the color changes to light pink
When the onions are fried fully, then add the ginger-garlic paste, and sauté them till raw the smell goes off.
Now cut the tomatoes into small pieces
And add them, and sauté them so that they melt fast
When the tomato is melted, then add the turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, and salt, stir them continuously and make sure the raw smell of the spices should go off
Now oil starts leaving from the gravy, add the fried chicken chunks and mix it well.
Add green chilies
Now add peppercorn powder, dry cilantro leaves, and Kasuri methi
Add chili flakes and mix them well
Now add yogurt and stir it continuously
Cover the lid and allow them to cook for 7-8 minutes on a low flame.
Open the cover, add some Julian ginger and coriander leaves
Now squeeze a lemon over it and mix it
Transfer it to a serving plate and serve hot with rice or roti.
How to Make Lahori Chicken
Equipment
- blender
- A kadai or a fry pan
- mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 500 gm Chicken
- 4 tbsp oil
- 2 onion
- 3 tomato
- 1 inch ginger
- 6 green chilies
- coriander leaves
- 1/2 cup curd
- 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- 1/2 tbsp Peppercorn powder
- 1/2 tbsp cilantroleaves
- 1/2 tbsp chili flakes
- 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tbsp red chili powder
- 1 tbsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tbsp kasuri methi
- salt
Instructions
- First, we clean and wash the chicken chunks for making Lahori chicken
- Take a wok and heat 3-4 tbsp oil
- Add the chicken chunks and fry in medium flame, it will take 7-8 minutes,once fried on one side then turn it over to another side.
- Cut onions into medium pieces and put them in a grinder.
- And make a fine paste by adding little water.
- Take out the chicken chunks which are fried
- Add the onion paste in the same oil and fry it till the water is fully dryand the color changes to light pink
- When the onions are fried fully, then add the ginger-garlic paste, and sautéthem till raw the smell goes off.
- Now cut the tomatoes into small pieces
- And add them, and sauté them so that they melt fast
- When the tomato is melted, then add the turmeric powder, red chili powder,coriander powder and salt, stir them continuously, and make sure the raw smellof the spices should go off
- Now oil starts leaving from the gravy, add the fried chicken chunks and mixit well
- Add green chilies
- Now add peppercorn powder, dry cilantro leaves, and Kasuri methi
- Add chili flakes and mix them well
- Now add yogurt and stir it continuously
- Cover the lid and allow them to cook for 7-8 minutes on a low flame.
- Open the cover, add some Julian ginger and coriander leaves
- Now squeeze a lemon over it and mix it
- Transfer it to a serving plate and serve hot with rice or roti.