If you try one new thing make it this!!!! Pure comfort food that works in the summer. Delicious, fresh vegetables, tender chicken and zingy spices. Serve it in a lettuce wrap and you’ve got a light and refreshing dinner that’s great to share with family and friends.

Serves 4.

Choila Ingredients

Low calorie cooking spray

500g skinless chicken breasts

1 beefsteak or Jack Hawkins tomato

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground coriander

1 tsp garam masala

1 lime, juiced

1/2 tbsp peppercorns

1/2 tbsp chilli flakes

6 spring onions, cut diagonally

2 garlic cloves, very thinly sliced

1 tbsp fresh ginger, finely chopped

2 red onions, thinly sliced (use a mandolin if possible)

lettuce leaves and/or flatbreads to serve

Tempering Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 tbsp fenugreek seeds

1 green chillies, sliced

1 tsp turmeric

Small bunch coriander, roughly chopped

Spray the chicken breasts with the cooking spray and massage in.

Heat a large, lidded pan over a medium heat and once hot brown the chicken breasts on one side then turn and brown on the other side. Pour boiling water (about 200ml or halfway up the chicken) into the pan and immediately put the lid on. Reduce the heat and simmer and cook for 20 minutes or until the breasts have cooked – add the whole tomato to the water for the final 5 minutes.

Remove the chicken and the tomato from the pan and leave to cool.

Once cooled peel the tomato and shred the chicken. Transfer both to a large mixing bowl and add the remaining Choila ingredients to the bowl and use your hands or a spoon to combine everything, crushing the tomato as you do.

For the temper; heat the oil in a large pan over a high heat. When the oil is hot, add the fenugreek seeds and cook until coloured. Immediately turn off the heat and add the green chillies to cook for just a few seconds. Finally add the turmeric, mix through and immediately pour this mixture over the mixing bowl.

Add the coriander and mix well to combine.

Leave it for at least 5 minutes before serving. However, this is a great make-ahead dinner as the longer it’s left the better the flavours are!

Serve on its own or in a lettuce or on a flatbread.