Chicken Choila
Chicken Choila is a traditional, spicy, and tangy Nepalese dish originating from the Newari community. It consists of grilled or roasted chicken marinated in a robust blend of spices, garlic, ginger, green chilies, and mustard oil, often served cold as an appetizer or side dish with beaten rice (chiura).
< 30min
Normal
Spicy
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Directions
Cut finely the ginger, the garlic cloves and the green chilies.
Cut the chicken into slices.
Cook the chicken in water.
Cut the tomatoes, the garlic branches and the coriander leaves into small pieces.
Heat the mustard oil in a pan.
When hot add the fenugreek seeds and fry it till it turns dark brown.
Take aside the fenugreek seeds.
After 2 minutes, add the red chili powder, the salt, the cumin powder and the turmeric powder.
Mix everything. As soon as the tomato juice has evaporated, stop cooking.
When the chicken is cooked, stop cooking.
Add all ingredients, spices, fenugreek seeds and chicken to a bowl. Mix everything together.
Garnish with the coriander leaves.
Ready. Enjoy! You can also serve your chicken choila with chiura (beaten rice), rice, potatoes (aloo) sadheko, lentils, black-eyed beans, pickles (achar), salads and/or vegetables. Have a hot or cold drink or a local alcohol.
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