Great Daal Chicken recipe, chicken with lentils recipe.

 

'Someone knockin' the door

Someone ringin' the bell
Do me favour
Open the door and let 'em in'.

I always order a chicken dhansak at an untried curry house to decide if they are any good, the curry house that is. Sometimes dhansaks are too sweet, sometimes too watery. This needs assessing. It's important. If the restaurant's dhansak is good then their other dishes will also be good. Benchmarks are important. This maybe my only benchmark, but it's a benchmark, none the less. Maybe you take tandoori as your trig point. Maybe you have a Madras meridian. We all have them, benchmarks that is. Benchmarks are important. 

This tho is a chicken and lentil curry, dhansaks older brother, he has more wisdom and little more attitude. Treat him right tho and he's possibly the easiest curry ever, tasty not fruity. He'll show you a gud time. He'll easily become your new benchmark.

Ingredients:-

So fry onions till softened in oil and butter, lob in a bit of garlic, then chicken fillet pieces, fry for a minute or two, then add a large tablespoon of 'East End' Madras curry powder (found in Asian shops in UK), some diced chillies to taste, at least four tho, some ground cardamon seeds. Fry for a few minutes or until the chicken starts to brown and your kitchen smells fantastic. Then add water, some tomato puree, some passata or a tin of chopped tomatoes. Bring to a boil and then simmer, taste for seasoning, for ten mins. Then add some red lentils, simmer very gently till they start to fall apart as main pic, adding more water as required, more seasoning and maybe a teaspoon of sugar.

The trick with this recipe is to sprinkle a teaspoon of garam masala over the pan a minute or so before serving, this lifts the dish, and is how the garam masala spice mix should be used.

You won't need to shout the family to come, they will be sat at the table salivating

and there will be

'Someone knockin' the door

Someone ringin' the bell

Sister Suzie, brother John
Martin Luther, Phil and Don
Uncle Ernie, Auntie Gin

Do me favour

Open the door and let 'em in.

Ooh yeah, let 'em in, yeah