Chicken Saag

Ingredients for Chicken Saag:

1. Green spinach – 250 gm

2. Oil – 2.5 tablespoons

3. Bay leaf – 2

    Cloves, cardamom – 3 each

    Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

4. Onions chopped – 150 gm

5. Garlic chopped – 5 cloves

    Green chilli chopped – 1

    Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

    Tomato chopped to pieces after removing skin – 2

6. Chicken breast – 400 gm, cut into pieces

    Salt – For taste

7. Garam masala – 1 tsp

    Coriander leaves chopped – 2 tablespoons

How to prepare Chicken Saag?

1. Dip spinach in boiled water for a while.

2. Make a fine paste of spinach leaves.

3. Heat oil in a pan and sauté ingredients no: 3.

4. Add onions and sauté again.

5. When onions turn brown, add ingredients no: 5 and sauté again.

6. Add chicken breast, salt and cook it for 3 minutes.

7. Add spinach and reduce flame.

8. Cook till chicken is done.

9. Add ingredients no: 7 and put off the flame.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine May 1-14, 2005

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