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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.
Chicken Dhansak is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Dhansak is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken dhansak using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Dhansak:
- Make ready onions, finely chopped
- Make ready chicken thighs, boned, skinned and all visible fat removed or 4 breasts
- Get garlic cloves, crushed
- Get g/¾oz ginger, finely grated
- Make ready garam masala
- Prepare hot chilli powder
- Prepare tin chopped tomatoes
- Take ml/20floz chicken stock, made with 1 chicken stock cube
- Take g/3½oz dried red split lentils, rinsed and drained
- Get bay leaves
It's also got a tomato flavour, plus a bit of tanginess from pineapple chunks and juice. Cut chicken breasts in two and sever the legs at the joint. With the salt mash the ginger and garlic to a pulp. 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.
Instructions 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
How to make Chicken Dhansak - A popular Parsi dish - chicken cooked with mixed dals, vegetables and dhansaak masala. This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe. Main Ingredients : Split Bengal gram (chana dal) (चने की दाल), Split pigeon pea (toor dal/arhar dal) (तुवर दाल/अरहर दाल) Chicken dhansak is a timeless Indian dish where the humble lentil is transformed into something wonderful. Overlay some big Bengali flavours and it might become a new classic. Chicken dhansak is a delicious, mildly spiced curry with lentils.
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