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Indian Recipe: Chicken in Spinach Puree
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Serves 4-5
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Ingredients for Chicken in Spinach Puree:
- 1 kg chicken, skinned cut into pieces
- 4 tbsp oil
- 4 cinnamon sticks
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 2/3 tbsp ginger paste
- 2 2/3 tbsp garlic paste
- 1 cup onion paste
- 2 tsp red chili powder
- ¾ cup tomatoes, chopped
- 350 gm spinach
- 2/3 tsp maizeflour (make ka atta)
- 2 2/3 tbsp water
- ½ cup butter
- Salt to taste
- 2/3 tsp white pepper powder
- 2 tsp ginger, julienned
- 2/3 tsp fenugreek powder
Directions for making Chicken in Spinach Puree:
- Heat oil in a pan, add cinnamon and bay leaves and sauté over medium heat until they begin to crackle.
- Add the ginger, garlic, and onion pastes and red chilli powder, sauté for 30-60 seconds.
- Add tomatoes and sauté further for 1 minutes.
- Stir in the spinach puree and the maize flour (diluted with water) and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- In another pan, heat the butter and sauté the chicken until lightly browned.
- Transfer the chicken pieces into the spinach puree. Add salt and white pepper powder, cover and simmer on very low heat (dum) for 10-15 minutes or till chicken is cooked.
- Serve hot, garnished with chopped whole red chillies (optional) and fenugreek powder, accompanied by Naan.
- Enjoy your Chicken in Spinach Puree. Hope you love this Indian recipe.
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