Recipe: Perfect Chicken Hariyali

Chicken Hariyali. It's a wonderfully fragrant dish and one that works as a main or a starter. I like to serve this in a roti wrap with salad and a red hot chutney. In a food processor or blender, purée the fresh coriander, mint leaves, ginger, garlic, lemon juice, green chilli and salt.

Chicken is soused in the freshly ground green paste which gives them the perfect flavours and fragrance. And as mentioned above this one's a ketogenic recipe so you don't have to worry about the guilt and cheat too. You can even cook these on a regular barbecue or in the oven! You can have Chicken Hariyali using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Hariyali

1. It's of Chicken.
2. It's of Onions.
3. Prepare of tomatoes.
4. Prepare of Hariyali masala.
5. Prepare of ginger garlic paste.
6. You need of chilli powder.
7. Prepare of lemon juice.
8. It's of coriander powder.
9. Prepare of turmeric powder.
10. It's of cumin seeds.
11. Prepare of mustard seeds.
12. It's of cardamom.
13. You need of cloves.
14. You need of cinnamon.
15. Prepare of garlic cloves chopped.
16. It's of chopped coriander.
17. You need of green chillies chopped.
18. Prepare of refined oil.
19. Prepare of Salt.

The chicken is marinated in a green sauce which is a blend of green chilies, yogurt, lemon juice, coriander and mint. And then a few more ingredients are added for extra flavour. All the yogurt and cream used in the marinade ensures that the boneless chicken breasts are very juicy. Hariyali Chicken Tikka Recipe is a lip-smacking appetizer made with green masala thus the name "Hariyali".

Chicken Hariyali instructions

1. Pour oil in a pan. Add cumin, mustard, cinnamon and cloves. Stir for a minute. Add Onions cook until it's half brown..
2. Add Ginger garlic paste and chicken. Add a little bit of salt and cook the chicken for at least 5 minutes. Keep stirring the chicken..
3. Add tomatoes and stir it well. Cook this mixture till the tomatoes are fully mashed. Cook this mixture at least for about 10 minutes with burner in sim..
4. Add Hariyali masala, chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, lemon juice, chopped garlic and salt as required..
5. Cook the mixture until the chicken is finely cooked and serve it with the chopped coriander..

The masala is made from a blend of mint leaves and coriander leaves that is spiced with an array of spice powders. Marinating the chicken for a long period of time to develop enough flavor is the key here. Hariyali Chicken is a beautiful curry made with a blend of spinach, fenugreek and coriander leaves. It tastes beautiful with rice or chapathis. Folks I realise that it had been a while since my hubby contributed some of his genius recipes to the blog.