Chicken pakoras | Borough Market

Ingredients

• 600g boneless chicken thighs or breast, cut into 4cm pieces
• 1 tsp minced ginger
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• ½ tsp of fine grain salt
• Juice of ½ a lemon
• 150g gram (chickpea) flour
• 75g corn flour or rice flour
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda (optional)
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 green chilli, deseeded and finely chopped (optional)
• 15g fresh coriander, leaves coarsely chopped, stalks finely chopped
• 250ml sunflower or corn oil for deep frying