Easiest Way to Prepare Harissa Chicken

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, harissa chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Harissa Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Harissa Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Easiest Way to Make Harissa Chicken

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have harissa chicken using 22 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Harissa Chicken:

1. Make ready 250 g boneless Chicken
2. Make ready 3 medium Tomatoes
3. Prepare 3-4 cloves Garlic
4. Make ready 1 teaspoon Fennel seeds
5. Make ready 1 tablespoon white Vinegar
6. Prepare 2 tablespoon Harissa paste (home-made)
7. Make ready 2 tablespoon Olive oil/Vegetable oil
8. Get 1/2 cup cooked Kidney beans/Rajma
9. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon brown Sugar or white Sugar
10. Take to taste Salt
11. Take 5-6 Basil leaves or Mint leaves to garnish
12. Take For Harirra paste
13. Take 10-12 dry red Chillies
14. Make ready 1 tablespoon whole Cumin seeds
15. Get 2 teaspoon whole Coriander seeds
16. Prepare 1 teaspoon Caraway seeds
17. Get 4 cloves garlic, crushed
18. Prepare 1 ½ tsp Paprika powder/kashmiri red chilli powder
19. Get 1 teaspoon Salt
20. Make ready 1/2 of a Lemon(juice only)
21. Make ready 2 tablespoon Tomato paste
22. Get 1/4 cup of Olive oil

Instructions

Steps to make Harissa Chicken:

1. Gather all the ingredients of harissa paste.
2. Add dried chilies to a mixing bowl or measuring cup and cover with hot water. Cover and keep aside for 10 minutes.
3. After 10 minutes drain the water and transfer to a pan.
4. Cover and steam for about 10 minutes in low heat.
5. In the meantime, add cumin, caraway and coriander seeds to a small skillet and toast over medium heat for a few minutes, or until fragrant and they start to pop.
6. Then transfer to a grinder, and crush into a fine powder.
7. Crush garlic cloves and add to the grinded spices. Also add in paprika powder/ kashmiri chilli powder, lemon juice from 1/2 of a lemon, vinegar, tomato paste, olive oil and salt.
8. Blend to a coarse paste. Add in little water or oil in between to ease the process of blending.
9. Transfer the steamed chillies to a cutting board and take out all the seeds from the chillies.
10. Add in the deseeded chillies to the blender.
11. Blend to a fine paste. Here also add in little water or a mixture of vinegar and water if necessary.
12. Transfer the harissa paste to a glass bottle. You can store the paste for 9-10 days.
13. Now take 250 g of boneless chicken pieces.
14. Marinate the chicken pieces with 2 tablespoon of prepared harissa paste and 1/4th teaspoon of salt.
15. Cover and keep aside for 1/2 an hour.
16. Take 2 tomatoes and garlic cloves. Cut them roughly.
17. Put roughly chopped tomatoes, garlic, vinegar and fennel seeds to a blender and make a thin paste.
18. Heat oil in a non-stick pan and shallow fry the marinated chicken pieces to light golden brown.
19. Now add in the prepared tomato paste, salt as per your taste and 1/2 teaspoon brown/regular sugar. Continue to cook in medium heat for 5-6 minutes.
20. Also add in 1/2 cup cooked kidney beans, I added canned one.
21. Further cook in medium heat until the paste thickens and coats to the chicken. Sprinkle some basil leaves or mint leaves and remove from heat.
22. Vibrant coloured spicy and flavourful African harissa chicken is ready to serve. You can serve them with any kind of bread or chapati, fulka etc.

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