Chicken Palak
Authentic Indian chicken palak made the traditional way — no shortcuts, just proper home-cooked flavour.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken breast
- 1 tspn ground coriander
- 1 tbspn oil
- 1/8 tspn crushed dried red chillies
- ½ tspn fennel seeds
- 2 tbspn yogurt
- 100 gm onion (prepared weight)
- ¼ tspn salt
- 1 tspn ginger
- 90 - 100 gm spinach (palak)
- ½ tspn garlic
- ½ tspn methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
- 3 tbspn chopped tomatoes
- 1/8 tspn freshly ground black pepper
- ¼ tspn turmeric
- ¼ tspn garam masala
Method
- 1
Cut the chicken into 12 mm cubes.
- 2
Crush the garlic.
- 3
Grate the ginger.
- 4
Mix the ginger and garlic with 1 tspn of oil to make a paste.
- 5
Thinly slice the onion.
- 6
If necessary, wash and drain the spinach.
- 7
Chop the spinach.
- 8
Heat the oil in a wok over a medium heat and fry the fennel seeds for about .
- 9
Add the onion and fry for .
- 10
Add the ginger and garlic paste and fry for , stirring.
- 11
Add the chopped tomatoes and cook, stirring for .
- 12
Add the turmeric, ground coriander and crushed red chillies and cook, stirring, for .
- 13
Add the chicken and cook, stirring for to seal.
- 14
Remove from the heat and stir in the yogurt, return to the heat and cook for 1 - .
- 15
Add 150 ml of warm water and salt and cook for , stirring regularly.
- 16
Add the spinach and cook, stirring frequently, for .
- 17
Stir in the methi, black pepper and garam masala and cook for .
- 18
Serve with rice.