Chicken Choila Easy (Spiced Chicken Salad) सजिलो कुखुराको छोइला
Chicken Choila is a traditional Nepalese dish that is loved for its bold and flavorful blend of ginger, garlic, spices, and smoky chicken. This recipe offers a quicker and easier way to recreate the dish at home, without sacrificing the powerful flavours that make Chicken Choila so irresistible. I have found that this simplified version satisfies my cravings in a pinch when I don't have a lot of time to prepare a full recipe.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 500 g chicken (Boneless chicken breast or thigh)
- 3 tablespoon Tomato paste (Canned tomato or 2 fresh tomato in a paste consistency (blend or crush))
- 3 Spring onions (Cut into thin slices)
- 1/2 onion (medium sized, thinly sliced)
- 3 tablespoon Lemon Juice
- 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
- 2 teaspoon Chilli Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt (add according to taste)
- 1 teaspoon Timmur powder (Nepali Sichuan Peppercorn) (optional)
- 2 fresh chilli (optional. Adds spice to the dish. )
- 4 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
- 1 teaspoon Ginger Paste
- 1 tablespoon Garlic Paste
- 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
Instructions
- 1
Cook the Chicken
- 2
Cook the chicken large pieces without cutting it yet. My personal favourite is to barbecue the chicken for 20 minutes so it imparts a smoky flavour to the chicken. Alternatively oven bake the chicken at 180 degrees for 30 minutes or pan fry until cooked and golden.
- 3
Leave to cool then cut into bitesized strips.
- 4
Make the tempered oil dressing
- 5
Place ginger and garlic paste in a bowl. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan until smoking.
- 6
Whilst the oil is hot add it into the bowl with ginger and garlic paste.
- 7
Then add soy sauce
- 8
Mix everything together
- 9
Get a large bowl add the cooked chicken, tempered oil dressing, tomato paste/ chopped tomato, spring onions, onion, coriander powder, chilli powder, timmur powder, salt and lemon juice. Optional to add some finely sliced chilli pepper for spice.
- 10
Mix everything together well and serve cold.