Jalfrezi Curry
This Jafrezi curry recipe is quick and easy to prepare and your friends and family will love you for it. To total cook and preparation time is only 20 minutes, making this Jalfrezi curry recipe an ideal dish for a quick week night or mid afternoon snack.
What makes this Jalfrezi curry recipe to popular is it really is like a 'stir fry' as the literal translation of its name suggests. The Smoking Chimney jalfrezi recipe uses a tomato-based sauce alongside a curry base gravy. This gives the zhalfrezi a really strong tomato taste that could be said to be just a little tangy. It also contains quite a large quantity of chopped peppers
Jalfrezi is a curry dish originating in Bengal and popular throughout the Indian subcontinent and beyond. It consists of a main ingredient such as meat, fish, paneer or vegetables, stir-fried and served in a thick spicy sauce that includes green chilli peppers.
Prep
10 min
Cook
20 min
Total
30 min
Serves
4
Ingredients
Jalfrezi Curry Recipe Directions
- 3 tbsp oil
- 1/4 tsp black mustard seeds
- 1/4 tsp onion seeds
- 3 onions, finely sliced
- 3 green chilli peppers, seeds removed, cut into thin strips
- 500 g lamb or beef, cut into thin strips
- 1/4 tsp ground coriander
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp Worcester sauce
- 3 tomatoes, peeled, seeds removed, finely chopped
Method
Jalfrezi Curry Recipe Directions
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Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the mustard and cumin seeds for half a minute until they start to crackle. Add the onion and the chilli peppers, fry gently and stir continuously.
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Stir in the meat, ground spices, Worcester sauce and tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper and fry together on medium heat for a further 5 to 10 minutes.
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Remove from the frying pan and serve with rice.
