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Chicken Jalfrezi

Chicken Jalfrezi (Desi Chinese Style)

Chicken breast chunks and bell peppers cooked in a special Indian Chinese style sauce.
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Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings: 6 people
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese, fusion, Indian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Sauce:
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 2 tbsp chopped garlic
  • 2 tbsp chopped ginger
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 1 dry red chili (soaked in water)
  • 2 Roma tomatoes, diced
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp white vinegar
  • 2 tbsp cooking oil
Chicken:
  • 1.5 lbs chicken breasts, cubed (medium sized)
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp cornstarch
  • 1/4 cup cooking oil
Vegetables:
  • 1 cup cubed onion
  • 1 cup cubed green pepper
  • 1 cup cubed red pepper
Garnish
  • 3-4 green chilies, slit
  • 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped

Method
 

Sauce:
  1. Heat oil and sauté the onion, ginger, and garlic until golden.
  2. Transfer to a blender and add the rest of the sauce ingredients. Add a splash of water if the mixture is too thick to blend. Test spiciness level and add another dry red chili if you prefer more heat.
Chicken & Vegetables:
  1. Toss the chicken with salt, black pepper, and cornstarch. In the same pan used to start off the sauce, heat oil. Sauté the chicken on high heat for 5-7 minutes until browned, then lower the temperature and cook another 10 minutes or so, until the chicken is almost completely cooked through.
  2. Add cubed onion, green pepper, and red pepper and stir fry with the chicken for about 5 minutes.
  3. Pour in the sauce from the blender and cook covered until the sauce comes to a boil.
  4. Add green chilies and sprinkle with cilantro. Serve hot with rice or roti.

Notes

  • When you blend together the sauce, do a taste test at this point to adjust to your preference. More dry red chili for more spiciness, more sugar for more sweetness, more vinegar/tomatoes for more tartness, or more soy sauce for more saltiness/umami.