Palak Chicken (Spinach Chicken)

Name: Palak Chicken (Spinach Chicken)
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 4 Servings
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 1/2 kg chicken; 1/2 kg Spinach (if like more green you can add more); 1 1/2 medium sized onion (thin slices); 1/2 cup oil; 1 tsp ginger garlic paste; 7-8 whole green chilies; 1 small tomato chopped; 1/2 tsp red chili powder; 1/2 tsp turmeric; 1/2 tsp cumin powder; 1 1/2 Tbs qasuri methi; 1/2 cup milk; 1/5 tsp salt

Sarosh Zeeshan @TheRecipeTeller

Ara Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia

My and my family’s most favorite vegetable. The good thing is you can use spinach with a lot of things and have it with chapati or rice. It's an excellent source of vitamins.

Sarosh Zeeshan @TheRecipeTeller

Ara Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia

My and my family’s most favorite vegetable. The good thing is you can use spinach with a lot of things and have it with chapati or rice. It's an excellent source of vitamins.

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Ingredients

1 hr 30 mins

4 Servings

1/2 kgchicken
1/2 kgSpinach (if like more green you can add more)
1 1/2medium sized onion (thin slices)
1/2 cupoil
1 tspginger garlic paste
7-8whole green chilies
1small tomato chopped
1/2 tspred chili powder
1/2 tspturmeric
1/2 tspcumin powder
1 1/2 Tbsqasuri methi
1/2 cupmilk
1/5 tspsalt

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Steps

1 hr 30 mins

1

Pour oil in pot, male it hot and add sliced onions. Make it slightly brown and add chicken
2

Add ginger garlic paste and fry little bit.
3

Add all spices and salt, fry more. Make sure you chicken and spices merge together and oil comes out
4

Cover the chicken by adding little water and cook till it gets tender. Keep your flame slow for 15 mins.
5

After 15, mins your chicken is almost cooked, add spinach with whole green chilies.
6

Mix it up and add Qasuri methi. Qasuri methi is an optional, you can omit also as a lot of people doesn’t like the bitterness of methi.
7

Add milk in the mixture.
8

Mix it up and cover it on very low flame for 20-25 mins at least. Better to keep the Tawa under the pot. So spinach and chicken merge well and gives creamy texture.
9

Take it out in serving plate
10

Serve garma garma chapati, salad and namkeen lassi.