Chicken Jalfrezi

اَعُوْذُ بِاللهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيْمِ
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمن الرَّحِيْمِ

Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaathu everyone!

Chicken jalfrezi is one of my favourite curries. Not only is it one of my favourite curries, but it has also been voted as one of the most favourite UK curries. This chicken jalfrezi recipe tastes exactly like the local Indian takeaway so you will never need to call them again.

I have made this jalfrezi chicken recipe many times over the years. Usually If I have chicken in my curry, then I almost always have some form of vegetable in there as well. In this case, a chicken pepper curry which is what a jalfrezi curry is. This jalfrezi recipe gives a thick sauce that coats the chicken and the bell peppers. The thing with chicken jalfrezi is that my parents don’t really approve of it because they like their curries to be watery like my traditional chicken curry recipe which I made especially for my parents.

Most people use boneless chicken for chicken jalfrezi, but when I don’t have any, I just use chicken on the bone. It doesn’t really make a difference, but I know some people only ever eat boneless chicken and some people only ever eat on-the-bone chicken. This Indian jalfrezi curry recipe is very easy to make and constitutes of pantry spices that you are almost guaranteed to have. The cumin powder and coriander powder can be substituted with cumin seeds and coriander seeds respectively. If you don’t have either, you can use garam masala as a replacement.

I made this chicken jalfrezi for my YouTube video and I was in a bit of a panic because I don’t have enough of those prep bowls, so I always use them and then have to run and go put the other ingredients back in there and use them. It is rather long. I should really invest in some more prep bowls, but we shall see how things go.

This jalfrezi recipe shows you how to make chicken jalfrezi that is authentic and full of flavour.