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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Spice Mixes => Topic started by: milnead on November 18, 2012, 11:03:24 pm

Title: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: milnead on November 18, 2012, 11:03:24 pm: I made a fantastic Jalfrezi Paste from Jamie magazine (Sept/Oct 12) which can also be seen on his website. It's perfectly convertible into a TM recipe, but since I made a bigger amount (x4) I didn't actually use it for the cooking of the chicken, just for the basic paste.
Here goes (the basic paste):
Spices for roasting:
2 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp brown mustard seeds
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
1 tsp coriander seeds
For completing the paste:
2 garlic cloves
a thumb-sized piece of fresh root ginger
1 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp groundnut oil
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 fresh green chili
a small bunch of fresh coriander

You simply dry-roast the first four seeds till they brown a little and smell lovely. Let them cool a little, then put them in the Thermomix bowl and grind them, then add remaining ingredients and chop till you get a smooth paste.

This quantity is enough for 2 huge chicken breast halves, cut in 3-4cm pieces (or 3 smaller ones).

I used the paste as a marinade for the chicken (2 hours in fridge), then fried a biggish onion (chopped) and 1 green pepper (not a hot pepper) cut in 3 cm pieces, then added the chicken pieces with the paste plus a little water, and about 150 g of plain yougurt. It cooked in about 25 minutes. Quite delightful. Jamie, I love you!
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: Halex on November 18, 2012, 11:07:38 pm: Thank you, love Jalfreezie

H :)
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: JulieO on November 19, 2012, 01:27:24 am: Thankyou for posting this. I've never heard of a Jalfrezi before but I will be trying this.

Just a note, being a UK recipe, the tbsp amounts will equal 3 tsp here in Australia and the tomato puree is what we call tomato paste.

Thanks again. :D
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: goldfish on November 19, 2012, 01:50:52 am: Thanks milnead - sounds woderful! Have printed it off and hope to try it soon. Many thanks!! :D
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: Jamberie on November 19, 2012, 02:04:47 am: Sounds great. Do you think we could do the dry roast part in the TMX too? I've done that before with other recipes and it worked well -I'm all for minimising dishes!
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: Halex on November 19, 2012, 11:29:11 pm: Of course :)
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: Halex on November 19, 2012, 11:30:18 pm: Quote from: JulieO on November 19, 2012, 01:27:24 am
Thankyou for posting this. I've never heard of a Jalfrezi before but I will be trying this.

Just a note, being a UK recipe, the tbsp amounts will equal 3 tsp here in Australia and the tomato puree is what we call tomato paste.

Thanks again. :D

This used to be a favourite of ours at our local take away, they changed hands & they cant cook it the same :(
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: JulieO on November 20, 2012, 12:02:21 am: What a bummer Hally, maybe this will taste something like you remember. :D
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: obbie on December 07, 2012, 06:27:10 am: sounds yummy. printed
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: Halex on December 16, 2012, 08:53:58 pm: Making the paste today :)
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: MEP on December 24, 2012, 06:47:48 am: Yum.Chicken/Prawn Jalfrezi is my all time favourite Indian dish. Will definitely be trying this one soon. I tried the recipe from the Asian or Indiian TMX cookbook (can't remember which book) and it was very disappointing. Nothing like the restaurant so hope this one is better than that.

:)
Title: Re: Chicken Jalfrezi from Jamie Oliver's site
Post by: shiverama on March 01, 2013, 08:30:26 am: Love this it smells divine and tastes :o :o