Phaal Food

PHALL (THE HOTTEST CURRY OF ALL!)

Steps:

• Fry the meat in a pan in half the ghee or oil, until sealed (5 to 10 minutes). Set aside.
• Fry the onion, garlic and ginger until golden in remaining ghee or oil.
• Mix the spices with a little water to make a paste.
• Add to the onion mixture and cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the tomato (tinned, ketchup and puree) and chilies.
• Cook for a further 10 minutes.
• Combine the meat and all ingredients in a casserole dish and cook in a pre-heated oven at 400 deg F, Gas 6 for 45 to 60 minutes. (Alternatively, add meat back to the pan with the mixture and cook covered on low heat for an hour. At this stage you can also just throw it all into the slow cooker if you prefer.).

PHAAL

Steps:

• Place tomatoes, water, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, salt, ghost peppers, chili powder, garam masala, cumin, coriander, fenugreek, and black pepper into a blender and pulse several times to chop. Blend the ingredients until liquefied. Be careful, ghost chilies will burn eyes, mouth, or nose if touched.
• Pour the blended mixture into a large bowl and stir in lamb to coat; let lamb marinate at least 1 hour in refrigerator.
• Heat clarified butter in a large pan over medium-high heat and cook onion until lightly golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour the lamb and marinade into the skillet and bring to a boil; cook and stir until sauce begins to thicken, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low and simmer until lamb is tender, about 20 more minutes. Garnish with cilantro to serve.

CHICKEN PHAAL RECIPE

Steps:

• Take a large frying pan, add the oil and place over medium heat. Once the oil is shimmering, add the fennel seeds and stir for 30 seconds. Then add your ginger and garlic paste.
• Cook the ginger and garlic paste for 30 seconds, then add your chicken and turn the heat to high. Stir the chicken around the pan until it is browned on all sides
• As soon as the chicken is brown, add your naga chillies. Stir the chilli and chicken mix for 30 seconds
• add your spice powder. Stir the chicken around to coat it in the spices. Cook for around 2 minutes or until the spices turn slightly dark and fragrant
• Add your tomato puree and move the ingredients around the pan until the spices have become incorporated into the puree. Cook until thick bubbles appear.
• Add 1 cup of hot base gravy to the pan and stir to combine with the ingredients. Allow this to bubble down until it forms a thick paste. Then add the second cup of base gravy
• add the lemon juice and the coriander.

EASY CHICKEN PHAAL

Steps:

• Heat ghee in a large heavy skillet over medium heat and cook and stir red onion in the hot butter until starting to brown, about 8 minutes; stir in garlic and fresh ginger and cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 1 more minute. Stir in chicken pieces and cook and stir until lightly golden brown, about 10 more minutes.
• Mix ground fennel, lal mirchi, cumin, coriander, ground ginger, fenugreek, turmeric, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and black pepper in a bowl with 1 to 2 tablespoons water or as needed to make a paste; stir into the chicken and fry spice paste for 2 minutes. Pour in remaining 1/4 cup water and fry the spices and chicken until the water has almost evaporated, 7 to 8 minutes, stirring constantly to prevent spices from burning.
• Mix in jwala chiles, habanero chiles, and tomatoes; cook, stirring often, until tomatoes are softened and start to break apart, about 10 minutes. If chicken is still slightly pink inside, stir in more water, a tablespoon at a time, and cook until water has evaporated and chicken is cooked through.