This is a dish for which you don't need the pressure-cooker, a pan, or even a tagine will do! It's also a full flavoured curry cooked with very little onion and no oil at all, so its really healthy as well. I've given the greens in cup measures, this means a lightly stacked cup with the greens roughly torn up, as the old "bunch" measure is no longer valid..` You need 2 chicken breasts, chopped into chunks ( a little over a kilo)
Grind into a wet masala using a food processor or blender: 2 cups of green coriander, leaves and tender stalks only 1 cup of mint, leaves only 1 onion 2 tomatoes, skinned and chopped 2 teaspoons garlic paste 2 teaspoons ginger paste 2 green chillies chopped 3 tablespoons plain yoghurt
Dry masalas 4 cardamon pods broken - I bash them with a rolling pin 2 teaspoons dry coriander powder 1 teaspoon dekchi mirch or kashmiri mirch, or 1.2 teaspoon chilli pwder
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- Heat a wide shallow thick bottomed pan.
- Pour the wet masala into a shallow wide pan. Stand back to avoid getting burnt from the masala steam.
- Add the chicken and stir thoroughly.
- Add all the other ingredients, and stir till the chicken loses its raw look, and turns white.
- Cover the pan, turn down the heat, and ignore for about half an hour.
- Add salt to taste. All the liquid should have cooked down to a very thick sauce.
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Serve with naan, chapati or bread, a vegetable dish and a salad. |