Karahichicken Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot or karahi over high heat. Add chicken pieces and cook until starting to brown, about 5 minutes. Add water, cumin, salt, ginger and garlic paste, red chile powder, and turmeric; cook and stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
• Stir tomatoes and green chile peppers into the pot. Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until chicken pieces are no longer pink at the bone, about 30 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted near the bone should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
• Sprinkle cilantro leaves over the chicken and cook until the leaves look slightly wilted, about 30 seconds.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large deep frying pan adding chopped onions and fry for 4 to 5 minutes on a medium heat or once the onions are slightly brown. Add the garlic and ginger and cook for a further 1 or 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes, salt, chili powder, green chili, ground cumin and turmeric.
• Turn up the heat and further cook for another 1 minute then put in the chicken. It is very crucial that spices are mixed within the pan at this point to ensure that the chicken cooks with texture and flavor. Add water after stirring the chicken into the spices.
• Turn down the heat slightly and stir in the garam masala and fenugreek and cook for a further 5 minutes, also adding in the bell pepper stirring now and again. Serve sprinkled with green coriander.

Steps:

• For the karahi curry sauce: heat the oil in a pan, add the onions, garlic and chillies and fry over a medium heat for approximately 10 minutes or until the onions are caramelised.
• Add the cumin, coriander, turmeric, salt and garam masala and stir. Mix in the ginger and pureed tomatoes and cook for 1 minute, stirring. Add the water and cook for about 5 minutes or until the oil surfaces. Remove from the heat and keep warm.
• For the chicken: heat the oil in a wok or heavy-based frying pan and add the chicken. Stir-fry over a medium heat for 8-10 minutes or until the chicken is golden brown all over. Stir in the karahi curry sauce and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Garnish with cilantro leaves.

Steps:

• Wash and dry chicken pieces properly. Put the chicken pieces in a medium sized saucepan. Add salt to taste, green chilies, peppercorns, and water and place on stove on high heat. Once the water starts to boil, reduce heat to low and cook chicken until tender and the liquid has evaporated. If the chicken sticks and is not cooked add a little more water.
• While the above is being done, in a separate "karahi", which is an Indian/ Pakistani Wok, (or you can use a Chinese wok also) add the olive oil, tomatoes, some salt and red chili powder (around one teaspoon for medium hot or two teaspoons for hot). Cook on medium heat until the tomatoes are tender and reduced to a sauce like consistency. Add the cooked chicken pieces to the sauce. Reduce heat to very low so that the sauce absorbs and coats the chicken pieces. Add the julienned ginger and green chilies to the chicken. Simmer for around five minutes.
• Before serving sprinkle on chopped cilantro and serve in the Karahi, with hot pita bread or any available Indian bread from the market.
• The dish is best eaten fresh off the stove with "Dal" as an accompaniment.

Steps:

• Cook Chicken, or other meat.
• You can grill, fry or oven cook meat in any way you like. I often fry in oil adding a little turmeric and garlic. Once cooked set the pre-cooked meat aside.
• Base Sauce.
• Chop onions, ginger and Garlic roughly and fry in oil until cooked, add hot water, just enought to cover onions and garlic, you may not need all 500ml. Then simmer for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes take off heat let cool then blend with either a hand blender or in traditional blender, then set aside.
• Spice Mix.
• While the base sauce is cooling this is a good time to prepare you spice mix, just put all the spices in one bowl and mix together.
• The Curry.
• Heat oil to medium heat, and fry garlic and ginger for about 2 - 3 minutes, towards the end of the 3 minutes turn the heat down to very low.
• Once the oil, garlic and ginger have cooked and cooled a little add the spice mix a spoon at a time, you want to make a paste when the oil blends with the spices, so you may not need all the spice mix or you may need to add more oil.
• Once you have a runny oily paste turn the heat up very slightly, be very careful because if the spices burn the whole dish will be ruined. The trick is not to fry the spices just heat them sufficiently enough to bring out all the aromas and flavours, this should take only a few minutes.
• Then add the tomatoes, curry base, orange, salt, bay leaf, cinnamon, chicken stock cube and pre cooked chicken stirring the dish well.
• Let simmer for at least 20 mins but can be left for hours.
• 5 mins before you are ready to serve add the coriander and Ghee then dish up, I would recommend to serve with chapattis or basmati rice.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a nonreactive large saute pan over medium heat.
• Add the onions and saute about 5 minutes until golden.
• Add garlic powder and water and stir to combine.
• Then add the salt, cayenne and coriander.
• Mix well and then add the tomatoes.
• Cook the tomatoes 10 minutes until the mixture becomes almost a paste.
• Add the chicken and cook 30 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer 5 minutes.
• Add the cilantro and serve.

Steps:

• Prep all the components - chop the chicken, crush the garlic and ginger into a paste, separate tomatoes, gather all spices, chop chiles, julienne ginger, and choppped cilantro leaves
• Set a wok over high heat and add the oil. Once hot, add the chicken and a generous sprinkle of salt. Cook while stirring until the chicken is cooked on the exterior
• Add the garlic and ginger paste and saute for 30 seconds. Add the whole peeled tomatoes and cook while stirring for 5-10 minutes until the tomatoes start to break down. Crush the tomatoes with a spatula to develop the sauce
• Add the spices and stir into the sauce. Let the sauce reduce for another 5-10 minutes until it is fairly thick.
• Toss in the chiles, and butter if using. Let the sauce reduce further until your desired consistency. It should be fairly thick and glossy. Turn off the heat. TASTE IT! Add salt to enhance the flavors.
• With the heat off, add the julienned ginger and cilantro leaves. Toss once and serve with rice, roti, or eat as is.