With a day off today thanks to snow, I decided to experiment in the kitchen and try replicating this dish for lunch.
Ingredients & seasonings:
Chicken breast without bones/skin (used roughly half a pound's worth).
1 onion
Cumin powder
Coriander powder
Red chilli powder
Turmeric
Chaat masala (if not, a combination of black salt and dried mango powder should be fine)
Dried mint leaf
Ginger
Garlic (alternatively, if you can get ginger-garlic paste from any good Indian store - just use a spoon of that instead)
Lemon juice
Tortillas - I used plain whole wheat ones, although this is normally made with thin parathas (which I wasn't able to get/make)
Egg whites (roughly 1 per tortilla/paratha)
Chicken preparation:
1. Chop the chicken into small, bite-size pieces. Marinate in lemon juice and salt for an hour.
2. Mix 2 tsp red chilli powder, 2 tsp cumin powder, 1 tsp coriander powder, 1 tsp crushed dried mint leaf, 1/2 tsp turmeric and a little salt together (measurements of spices are approximate - I used a bit more cumin and chilli on this occasion given my liking for heat in dishes).
2. Drain and dry the pieces, then coat them in the mix of spices and let sit for 15 minutes.
Kebabs:
1. Grind a clove of garlic with about a square half inch of ginger and a little oil into a thick paste.
2. Halve the onion - chop one half fine, cut the other half into long thin slices and set aside.
3. In a pan/wok/kadai, heat a little oil and fry a spoon of the ginger-garlic paste and the chopped onion.
4. Stir, then add the pieces of chicken and stir-fry, adding a few pinches of chaat masala (or alternatively black salt + dried mango powder) while cooking (the chicken should take roughly 5-6 minutes)
5. Heat another pan, add very little oil and then pour in an egg white.
6. Immediately press a tortilla down on top of the egg white and let the egg cook into the tortilla.
7. When done flip over and place a couple of spoonfuls of the chicken mixture on top. Add some of the slices of raw onion on top, then roll it up and serve.
The chicken cooking:
Egg and tortilla:
Kathi kebabs:
