A popular restaurant dish, chicken jalfrezi recipe is very easy to make at home if you have the mostly basic ingredients in hand. I made this one pot chicken recipe on a weeknight for a quick dinner with some rice and loved its simplicity and taste. Jalfrezi is supposedly one of those dishes that were passed on by the British Raj to India and Pakistan. It started off as means to use up leftovers and like many dishes born the same way, grew in popularity especially in Indian and Pakistani restaurants. This chicken jalfrezi recipe is not that different from my vegetable jalfrezi and paneer jalfrezi recipes, the key difference being the star ingredient, of course. The quickest way to make this dish is to prepare all the vegetables, clean and cut them, and line up all other items before putting that cooking pan on the stove. One thing worth pointing out is that typically meat-based jalfrezi recipes involve marinating the meat the in some spices before cooking it. I didn’t follow that step because I wanted an easy weeknight dinner on the table in 30 minutes. Check out the notes if you have some time in hand and want to try jalfrezi the “proper” way. Other chicken recipes you will love: Madurai-style Chicken 65 Delicious Indian chicken starter – Chicken Majestic Dry chilli chicken recipe Easy chicken curry in coconut milk Chicken thoran – dry chicken recipe with coconut Step by step pictures to prepare Chicken Jalfrezi Note: adding canned tomato paste gives a deep colour to the dish. You can omit and just use tomato puree or replace the tomato paste and the cubed tomato with 1 cup canned tomato and its juices. Add the spices – coriander, cumin powder, chilli powder, turmeric – and fry again for a minute until they turn fragrant. Take care not to burn the spices at this stage by keeping the flame low Now add the tomato paste (if using), cut tomatoes, and capsicum Cook covered for 10-12 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through, stirring occasionally The chicken will let out water while cooking so the dish shouldn’t burn but keep an eye on it every 3-4 minutes by giving everything a good stir Once the chicken is cooked, uncover and cook on a medium flame in the open pan for a few more minutes.Add salt, sugar, garam masala, and kasuri methi Add coriander leaves at the end and mix again before removing from the heat Chicken jalfrezi can be served hot with vegetable pulao, chapatis, or even plain rice. For Chicken Jalfrezi recipe in Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Malay, please use the Google translate button in the sidebar.
