Palak Chicken

Palak Chicken

Ingredients:
Chicken 1/2 kg
Spinach (Palak) 1 bunch
Onions (medium size) 3
Garlic 12 pods
Ginger 1/2 inch piece
Green Chillies 4-6
Coriander Leaves (finely chopped) Handful
Cloves 4
Cinnamon 1 stick
Bay Leaf 1
Curd / Plain Yogurt 1/2 cup
Oil for frying
Salt to taste


Procedure

1. Finely chop the onions, garlic and green chillies.
2. Boil the spinach on low heat in a vessel till it is soft. Switch off and set aside
3. Heat oil in a wok/pan.
4. Add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf. Fry for a minute.
5. Add onions till they turn pink.
6. Add finely chopped ginger, garlic, green chillies and coriander.
7. Add spinach to this mixture. At this time you should be experiencing very nice aroma.
8. Fry this mixture for a couple of minutes
9. Take the mixture off the heat.
10. Use the blender to grind the spinach mixture to paste.
11. Heat some more oil in pan. Add the paste from blender.
12. Add curd / plain yogurt.
13. Once the oil starts leaving the sides of the pan, add chicken and salt.
14. Cook on low heat till the chicken is done.

Serve hot with Rotis or Jeera Rice or plain rice.