Yen Thongba

A Meetei style chicken recipe

Main Dish

Non-Vegetarian

Chicken

Kanglei

Curry

One Pan

Spicy

Yen Thongba

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 By : KH MATHOU

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A Meetei style chicken recipe

13 Ingredients
55 Mins
4 People

Yen thongba is a chicken curry dish from Manipur. It is a popular and traditional Meitei recipe that involves a fusion of both desi spices and traditional Manipuri ingredients. The dish is made with country chicken, garlic, ginger, onion, garam masala, cumin, coriander, paprika, bay leaves, hot chili powder, turmeric powder, thorny coriander leaves, and salt. The dish is garnished with spring onions and potatoes.

Yen Thongba

Preparation Time
15 minutes

Cook Time
40 minutes

Total Time
55 minutes

Servings
4 servings

Ingredients
13 ingredients

Directions
11 steps

Ingredients

Primary

	4 pieces roughly chopped - Onion
	1/2 cup roughly chopped - Garlic
	2 tsp - Coriander powder
	2 tsp - Cumin powder
	1 killo - Chicken
	1/2 cup roughly chopped - Ginger
	3-4 pieces - Bay leaves
	200 ml - Cooking oil
	2 tsp - Turmeric powder
	2 bundle - Burmese cilantro Don't cut or chop it.
	4 tsp - Red chili powder
	2 pieces - Red chili or ghost pepper Raw is preferred for good smell and taste.
	As required - Salt

Directions

1
Heat a pan and pour the cooking oil and make it hot enough.
2
Fry the bay leaves, chopped onion, Ginger, garlic and 1 TSP of cumin powder, stir and keep for a while. You have to drop bay leaves first and onion second, this will help your ingredients not to burnt quickly.
3
Add the chicken meats and stir regularly until all the fluid came out from the meat.
4
Add salt and remaining cumin seed powder, cover the pan for a while.
5
Add turmeric powder, chilli or ghost pepper and stir thoroughly.
6
Add potatoes and any other things at this time if you want.
7
Add Red chili powder and stir regularly. At this time most of the liquid might vaporized so don't let it burnt.
8
You are done, add water to make it gravy but you might want to try this it without water. Most Manipuri people serve it with liquors or any other beverages.
9
Add Red chili powder if required and boiled it.
10
Add Burmese cilantro, turn the heat off.
11
You are ready to serve it.