Chicken Hariyali Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 15 minutes plus 2hour - overnight marinating time
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Ingredients Needed
- 3 green chillies (small if you like it spicy, large for less spicy)
- 40g/1.4ozs fresh coriander leaves and stalks, roughly chopped, around 1 bunch
- 20g/0.7ozs fresh mint leaves (no stalks), around 1/2 a bunch
- 80g/2.8ozs natural yogurt (not sweetened)
- 1 tablespoon/15ml/0.5floz lemon juice
- 40g/1.4ozs crushed garlic
- 30g/1oz crushed ginger
- 2-3 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons amchur powder (replace with a wedge of lemon when serving)
- 1 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 2 tablespoons/30ml/1floz oil
- Green food colouring (optional)
- 750g/1.6lbs skinless chicken thighs
- Extra oil for drizzling
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Preparing the Marinade
Step 1 - Blend the chillies, coriander leaves and stalks, mint leaves, yogurt, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, salt, amchur powder, pepper, garam masala, oil and food colouring together in a food processor or blender. Thermomix directions: place all ingredients in TM bowl and set to 15 seconds, speed #5.
Marinating and Cooking the Chicken
Step 2 -Cut the thighs in half along the centre where the fillet is the thinnest. Marinate the chicken thighs for 2-3 hours or overnight.
Step 3 -Take the chicken out 30 minutes before you want to cook it to allow it to come to temperature. Heat the grill onto high and line with foil. Thread chicken onto skewers (I pierce it at three places) and place on the foil and drizzle with oil. Grill on high for 9 minutes, then turn over and grill on the other side for 6 minutes on medium high. Then turn heat down to medium high and cook for another 13-15 minutes until the chicken is done (check on a thick part of the fillet).
Personal Note
Before Monica left I wanted to give her a present and a batch of this chicken haryali because she loves it so much. The only problem was that the weather was so abominably rainy that I couldn't drop the chicken off to her once it was made and I was coming down with a cold.
I did manage to give her a present though a couple of days before though. She loves soft toys and especially likes toys with dangly legs (aka "jelly cats") so I bought her a French fry jelly cat. I was tossing up between that and a sandwich because we both had shared many sandwiches over the years but I was worried that the white sandwich would get dirty.
As she left she said, "Let's pretend that we'll see each other in a few days time, other I'll get too emotional" and I agreed because it felt a bit surreal. And then a couple of days later she flew out of Sydney to Italy via Japan with her new jelly cat toy. And when she lands I'll send her this recipe so she can make this at her new home.
So tell me Dear Reader, have you ever tried Chicken Hariyali or heard of it?