Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site

[milnead]

I made a fantastic Jalfrezi Paste from Jamie magazine (Sept/Oct 12) which can also be seen on his website. It's perfectly convertible into a TM recipe, but since I made a bigger amount (x4) I didn't actually use it for the cooking of the chicken, just for the basic paste.
Here goes (the basic paste):
Spices for roasting:
2 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp brown mustard seeds
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
1 tsp coriander seeds
For completing the paste:
2 garlic cloves
a thumb-sized piece of fresh root ginger
1 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp groundnut oil
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 fresh green chili
a small bunch of fresh coriander

You simply dry-roast the first four seeds till they brown a little and smell lovely. Let them cool a little, then put them in the Thermomix bowl and grind them, then add remaining ingredients and chop till you get a smooth paste.

This quantity is enough for 2 huge chicken breast halves, cut in 3-4cm pieces (or 3 smaller ones).

I used the paste as a marinade for the chicken (2 hours in fridge), then fried a biggish onion (chopped) and 1 green pepper (not a hot pepper) cut in 3 cm pieces, then added the chicken pieces with the paste plus a little water, and about 150 g of plain yougurt. It cooked in about 25 minutes. Quite delightful. Jamie, I love you!

[Halex]

Thank you, love Jalfreezie

H

[JulieO]

Thankyou for posting this.  I've never heard of a Jalfrezi before but I will be trying this.

Just a note, being a UK recipe, the tbsp amounts will equal 3 tsp here in Australia and the tomato puree is what we call tomato paste.

Thanks again. 

[goldfish]

Thanks milnead - sounds woderful!  Have printed it off and hope to try it soon.  Many thanks!!

[Jamberie]

Sounds great. Do you think we could do the dry roast part in the TMX too? I've done that before with other recipes and it worked well -I'm all for minimising dishes!

[Halex]

Of course

[Halex]

Thankyou for posting this.  I've never heard of a Jalfrezi before but I will be trying this.

Just a note, being a UK recipe, the tbsp amounts will equal 3 tsp here in Australia and the tomato puree is what we call tomato paste.

Thanks again. 

This used to be a favourite of ours at our local take away, they changed hands & they cant cook it the same

[JulieO]

What a bummer Hally, maybe this will taste something like you remember. 

[obbie]

sounds yummy. printed

[Halex]

Making the paste today

[MEP]

Yum.Chicken/Prawn Jalfrezi is my all time favourite Indian dish. Will definitely be trying this one soon. I tried the recipe from the Asian or Indiian TMX cookbook (can't remember which book) and it was very disappointing. Nothing like the restaurant so hope this one is better than that.

 

[shiverama]

Love this it smells divine and tastes