Chicken Jalfrezi (Desi Chinese Style)
Chicken breast chunks and bell peppers cooked in a special Indian Chinese style sauce.
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
Instructions
Sauce:
- Heat oil and sauté the onion, ginger, and garlic until golden.
- 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:
- 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.
- Add cubed onion, green pepper, and red pepper and stir fry with the chicken for about 5 minutes.
- Pour in the sauce from the blender and cook covered until the sauce comes to a boil.
- 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.