Spinach Chicken

After four months my wife and my little kid are back in Vienna to stay with me. We are once again a happy little family together. We had a great family union over the weekend. Although it did not go entirely as I planned as I kept sleeping and did not go to pick them up from airport! Ouchhh... I know... :-)

So to cover up I decided to make an awesome dish together as a family. We are a family of three and its my third month of blogging. So our next dish will be a combination of three differently style cooked items. 

This dish is popularly called Palak Chicken or Spinach Chicken. Let me remind you that even I will cook this dish for the first time. 

I already stressed enough in one of earlier spinach (Palak Panner) recipes that how healthy spinach really is!

To put it simply this dish is a combination of boiled spinach, deliciously cooked chicken and a mouth watering tomatoes and onions tempering. 

So let's get to it...

Here's what you will need:

Ingredients 

• 350 gms Spinach 
• 400 gms Boneless chicken 
• 3 spoon ginger garlic paste
• 2 green chilies 
• 2 tomatoes chopped 
• 2 onions chopped
• Salt to taste 
• 2 tsp coriander powder
• 2 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp Black pepper
• 1 tsp Chicken masala
• 1 tsp Lemon juice 
• 1.5 rsp Red chili powder 
• Butter
• 1 tsp Garam masala
• 1 tsp Fenugreek leaves
• Fresh cream

Method

• Let's first marinate the chicken and keep it aside. 
• Take chicken pieces in a bowl. 
• Add 1 tsp ginger garlic paste. 
• Add 2 tsp olive oil. 
• Add salt to taste. 
• Add lemon juice. 
• Add 1 tsp Chicken masala
• Add 1 tsp red chili powder. 
• Mix it well. And keep it aside while you cook rest of the dish. 

Let's make the tempering

• Take a pan. Add olive oil 4 to 5 tsp olive oil. 
• Add chopped onions. Saute it till they change their color. Add salt. 
• Add 2 tsp ginger garlic paste. 
• Add 2 green chilies finely chopped. 
• When onion are golden brown add dry spices. 
• Add coriander powder.
• Add cumin powder. 
• Add tomatoes. 
• Mix them well. Keep saute them till oil separates out from masala. 

Let's saute the chicken 

• Take a pan. Add olive oil. 
• Lay the marinated chicken pieces on the pan. Lay each piece away from you in clockwise direction. So that you know how to turn them up for an even cook. 
• Add some butter. 
• Keep flipping the chicken pieces every 5 to 7 minutes for an even cook. 
• Once chicken is cooked add it to tempering with all the olive oil and butter mix. 
• Please make sure that the chicken cooked well. Mine was left a little undone. 

Spinach

• Bring the water to a boil in a deep pan or pressure cooker.
• Add spinach to the water and let it boil, without the lid.
• After 5 to 7 minutes take out the spinach and make a puree out if it. 
• I used a hand blender which my wife brought from India. 
• Add the spinach puree to the chicken mix. 
• Let it all cook up with the mix. 
• Add garam masala and fenugreek leaves in the end. 
• Give them a nice mix. And let them cook for another 10 minutes. Add fresh cream. 
• And that's it. 

Let's plate up

Serve it hot with Indian bread, naan or rice. It came out really delicious. Hey I'm no expert but I hope you will like the dish.