Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, harissa chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Harissa Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Harissa Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have harissa chicken using 22 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Harissa Chicken:
- Take 250 g boneless Chicken
- Take 3 medium Tomatoes
- Make ready 3-4 cloves Garlic
- Take 1 teaspoon Fennel seeds
- Take 1 tablespoon white Vinegar
- Take 2 tablespoon Harissa paste (home-made)
- Make ready 2 tablespoon Olive oil/Vegetable oil
- Get 1/2 cup cooked Kidney beans/Rajma
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon brown Sugar or white Sugar
- Get to taste Salt
- Prepare 5-6 Basil leaves or Mint leaves to garnish
- Make ready For Harirra paste
- Take 10-12 dry red Chillies
- Take 1 tablespoon whole Cumin seeds
- Prepare 2 teaspoon whole Coriander seeds
- Get 1 teaspoon Caraway seeds
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- Take 1 ½ tsp Paprika powder/kashmiri red chilli powder
- Take 1 teaspoon Salt
- Prepare 1/2 of a Lemon(juice only)
- Prepare 2 tablespoon Tomato paste
- Prepare 1/4 cup of Olive oil
Steps to make Harissa Chicken:
- Gather all the ingredients of harissa paste.
- Add dried chilies to a mixing bowl or measuring cup and cover with hot water. Cover and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes drain the water and transfer to a pan.
- Cover and steam for about 10 minutes in low heat.
- In the meantime, add cumin, caraway and coriander seeds to a small skillet and toast over medium heat for a few minutes, or until fragrant and they start to pop.
- Then transfer to a grinder, and crush into a fine powder.
- Crush garlic cloves and add to the grinded spices. Also add in paprika powder/ kashmiri chilli powder, lemon juice from 1/2 of a lemon, vinegar, tomato paste, olive oil and salt.
- Blend to a coarse paste. Add in little water or oil in between to ease the process of blending.
- Transfer the steamed chillies to a cutting board and take out all the seeds from the chillies.
- Add in the deseeded chillies to the blender.
- Blend to a fine paste. Here also add in little water or a mixture of vinegar and water if necessary.
- Transfer the harissa paste to a glass bottle. You can store the paste for 9-10 days.
- Now take 250 g of boneless chicken pieces.
- Marinate the chicken pieces with 2 tablespoon of prepared harissa paste and 1/4th teaspoon of salt.
- Cover and keep aside for 1/2 an hour.
- Take 2 tomatoes and garlic cloves. Cut them roughly.
- Put roughly chopped tomatoes, garlic, vinegar and fennel seeds to a blender and make a thin paste.
- Heat oil in a non-stick pan and shallow fry the marinated chicken pieces to light golden brown.
- Now add in the prepared tomato paste, salt as per your taste and 1/2 teaspoon brown/regular sugar. Continue to cook in medium heat for 5-6 minutes.
- Also add in 1/2 cup cooked kidney beans, I added canned one.
- Further cook in medium heat until the paste thickens and coats to the chicken. Sprinkle some basil leaves or mint leaves and remove from heat.
- Vibrant coloured spicy and flavourful African harissa chicken is ready to serve. You can serve them with any kind of bread or chapati, fulka etc.
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