Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt

Black-pepper chicken strips rolled in a wholewheat tortilla with cool mint yoghurt, spinach and carrot.

27 min1 servingsIndian
Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt — Indian recipe, finished and plated

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Ingredients

  • 180 g Chicken breast
  • 1 Low-carb tortillas
  • 25 g Greek yogurt
  • 8 g Mint
  • 10 g Ginger
  • 2 cloves Garlic
  • 1 tsp Black pepper
  • ½ tsp Garam masala
  • ½ Lemon
  • ½ tsp Neutral oil
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • 60 g Spinach (optional)
  • 40 g Carrot (optional)

Method

  1. Cut the chicken breast into finger-thick strips, then grate the ginger and garlic straight over them and add the black pepper, garam masala, salt and the juice of the half lemon. Work it in with your hands until every strip is grey with pepper.
  2. Leave the strips to sit for ten minutes — long enough for the pepper to bite into the surface, short enough that the lemon does not start firming up the meat.
  3. Chop the mint leaves as fine as you can and fold them through the Greek yoghurt until it is flecked all the way through and loose enough to spoon.
  4. Stack the spinach leaves and cut them into ribbons, and grate the carrot on the coarse holes.
  5. Film a heavy nonstick pan with the oil over a high flame and give it a minute to come up. Lay the strips down spaced apart, leave them four minutes without touching them, then turn them and give them three more, until the pepper has gone almost black and the meat springs back when pressed.
  6. As the chicken builds its crust, lay the wholewheat tortilla on a second dry burner over a low flame and turn it once or twice across three minutes, until it puffs in patches and goes slack.
  7. Streak the mint yoghurt across the warm tortilla, scatter the spinach and carrot over it, lay the pepper chicken down the middle and roll it up tight, folding the near edge over the filling first.
  8. Cut it in half at a steep angle and eat it while the crust is still crackling against the cold yoghurt.

About Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt

Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt is an Indian lunch or dinner that comes together in about 27 minutes and serves 1. It fits anti-inflammatory eating.

Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt: frequently asked questions

Is Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt gluten-free?

Based on its ingredients, Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt has no gluten-containing components, so it's naturally gluten-free — as always, check that any packaged ingredients you use are certified gluten-free to be safe.

Do I need every ingredient to make Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt?

The core ingredients are essential, but you can leave out spinach, carrot — they're optional and mainly there for extra flavor or finish.

How many servings does Pepper Chicken Roll with Mint Yoghurt make?

This recipe makes 1 serving. In the app you can scale it up or down and the ingredient amounts adjust automatically.