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Saag Murg

Nov-09-2017
Shreyasi Das
20 minutes
Prep Time
55 minutes
Cook Time
4 People
Serves
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ABOUT Saag Murg RECIPE

Saag Murg or Palak Chicken is an outrageously delicious dish, full of flavor and loaded with nutrients!! It’s an amazing combination of delicious ingredients that is cooked together to create the yummiest dishes of all.

Recipe Tags

  • Non-veg
  • Easy
  • Dinner Party
  • Punjabi
  • Simmering
  • Sauteeing
  • Side Dishes
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 4

  1. FOR GRAVY: 2 cups Palak/Spinach puree
  2. 1/2 cup Onion paste
  3. 2 tsp Garlic paste
  4. 2 tsp Ginger paste
  5. 3 medium Tomatoes
  6. 2 tbsp Curd
  7. 2-3 tbspTomato puree
  8. 1 tbsp Fresh cream (optional)
  9. 1/2 kg Boneless Chicken - cleaned
  10. SPICES: 2-3 Moti Elaichi (Black cardamom) pods
  11. 2 Green Cardamom pods
  12. 2 small 1 inch Cinnamon sticks
  13. 2-3 Bay leaves
  14. 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
  15. 1/2 tsp Haldi (Turmeric powder)
  16. 1/2-1 tsp Garam Masala Powder
  17. 1/4- 1/2 tsp Degi Mirch or Red chili Powder
  18. 1/2 tsp Coarsely pounded coriander powder
  19. 1 tsp Sugar
  20. Salt to taste

Instructions

  1. For Gravy: Wash and clean tomatoes. Apply a small incision in tomatoes and drop them in a potful of boiling water for 7-9 minutes until skin starts peeling off
  2. Rinse tomatoes in cold water. Peel off the tomato skin and discard. Chop the juicy flesh of tomatoes.
  3. Heat ghee in a pan, add whole spices and cumin seeds.
  4. As they begin spluttering, add ginger-garlic paste. Mix and saute for 5-6 SECONDS. Stir in onion paste and mix well
  5. Keep sauteing till all the liquid has evaporated and masala looks all dried up. Stir in chopped tomatoes.
  6. Add tomato puree and spice powders. Mix well
  7. Add beaten curd and give it a good mix. Cook for another 2-3 minutes till ghee starts to separate.
  8. Add pureed spinach. Mix well and allow it to simmer for 20- 25 minutes till palak color changes from light green to dark green
  9. Add chicken pieces to palak gravy
  10. Add 1/2 cup of water. Cover and cook till chicken pieces are cooked.
  11. Saag chicken is ready. Garnish it with cream and coriander leaves.Serve hot with rice or chapati.

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Kalpana Arora
Nov-10-2017
Kalpana Arora   Nov-10-2017

Nice one.

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