Chicken with green masala

Name: Chicken with green masala
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: lemon juice or water; 50 g ginger, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, chopped; 4—5 green chillies, seeded and sliced; 1 tablespoon sunflower oil; salt; about 200 ml coconut milk; 750 g chicken breasts and/or thighs, skin removed and boned; 15 g coriander leaves and young stems

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Winter Food

By Jill Norman

Published 2005

About

Green masala, made with green chillies and coriander, and sometimes mint, is a popular flavouring in Goa. Here, it is used to marinate the chicken, which is then simmered in coconut milk.

Ingredients

50 g ginger, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
4—5 gre

Europe
United Kingdom
Dinner
Gluten-free
Spicy

Method

Put the ginger, garlic, chillies, coriander and salt to taste into a food processor and blend to a paste with a little lemon juice or water. Cut the chicken pieces in half, or in three if very large, put them into a bowl and coat them with the masala paste. Cover and leave to marinate for 30 minutes.

Heat the oil in a large, preferably nonstick, frying pan and fry the pieces of c