Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken dhansak. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Dhansak is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chicken Dhansak is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Chicken dhansak is a delicious and stomach warming Parsee and Indian recipe. Generally, it involves simmering meat in a mixture of red lentils, green lentils or brown lentils and vegetables, onions, garlic, ginger, tomatoes, fresh coriander and spices. This high-protein chicken dhansak curry with lentils is the perfect weekday supper to warm you up.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken dhansak using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dhansak:
- Get 2 onions, finely chopped
- Get 6-8 chicken thighs, boned, skinned and all visible fat removed or 4 breasts
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Take 20 g/¾oz ginger, finely grated
- Take 2 tsp garam masala
- Take 1/2 tsp hot chilli powder
- Take 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
- Make ready 600 ml/20floz chicken stock, made with 1 chicken stock cube
- Make ready 100 g/3½oz dried red split lentils, rinsed and drained
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
In a grinder mix together the coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, cardamoms, cinnamon stick, dried chillies, peppercorns, bay leaves, fenugreek seeds, and the mustard seed. Chicken Dhansak is a Parsi Dish. Parsi cuisine is a mix of Gujarati vegetarian food and non-vegetarian Iranian food. One pot chicken dhansak is a delicious home made lentil curry infused with spices that is so easy to make.
Steps to make Chicken Dhansak:
- Spray a wide-based pan with oil and place. Cook the onions for five minutes, stirring regularly, until softened and very lightly browned.
- Cut the chicken thighs in half and add to the pan. Cook for two minutes, turning occasionally. Stir in the garlic, ginger, garam masala and chilli powder and cook you smell the spices
- Add the tomatoes into the pan,chicken stock, lentils and bay leaves. Bring to the boil, then cover loosely with a lid and simmer gently until the chicken is tender and the lentils have completely broken down, stirring occasionally. Remove the lid for the last 10 minutes of cooking time, stirring regularly so the lentils don’t stick.
- Serve with the rice
This restaurant style chicken dhansak will get you the results you're looking for. I published a similar chicken dhansak recipe in my first ebook "How To Make British Indian Restaurant Style Meals". In that recipe, I left the pineapple out as I wasn't a big fan. Dhansak is a famous Parsi dish. Indian restaurant dhansak curry is adapted from the traditional.
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