Palak Chicken - Spinach Chicken.

Palak Chicken is an outrageously delicious chicken and spinach recipe. It’s an authentic Indian recipe that is full of flavor and everyone’s favorite. People who avoid greens too will love this recipe.
Chicken can always be substituted with Mutton but the cooking time will vary as mutton takes longer to cook. Do give this recipe a try- this is a wonderful, scrumptious recipe with awesome flavors! Deliciously blend of greens and spices for a perfect flavor.



Ingriedients

Batch -1
1. Chicken Breast - 1 lbs (cut into desired pieces)
2. Corriander powder - 1 tsp
3. Garam masala - 1 tblsp
4. Roasted Cumin Powder -1 tsp
5. Salt - as needed
6. Yogurt - 4 tblsp
7. Ginger Garlic Green Chilly paste - 1 tblsp

Batch -2

1. Fresh Spinach (Palak) - 1/2 packet
2. Green Chilly - 2
3. Salt - 1/2 tblsp

Batch -3

1. Big Onion -1 (finely chopped)
2. Tomato -1 (finely chopped)
3. Nutmeg Powder - 1/4 tsp
4. Oil/Butter- 2tblsp

Method

1.Mix all the ingredients from batch -1 and let it rest for 1/2 hour.
2. Wash the spinach and Microwave Batch -2 in little water for 2-3 minutes and allow it to cool.
3. Heat oil/butter in a deep vessel and saute onions until golden grown.
4. Add the tomatoes and saute until it comes as a gravy.
5. Now add the Batch-1 marinated chicken into the pan and little water.
6. Let it boil until chicken is cooked.
7. Now grind the cooked spinach in the blender by adding little water to get a paste.
8. Add the spinach paste and nutmeg powder into the chicken pan.
9. Let it cook fo 5 more minutes.
10. Now garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
11. Serve it with hot chapathi,parrota or any fried rice.

Tips

      - You can also add tomato puree instead of diced tomatoes to have thick gravy.
      - For extra richness,  add a tblsp of butter and 2 tblsp of heavy cream to the gravy at the very end.
      - Using the same recipe, you could also make mutton sagwala (palak mutton).