Hariyali Murg

Hariyali Murg

How may ways can you cook chicken? Turns out if needed/forced you can actually cook chicken in thousands of ways. 

This happens when your child refuses to eat anything else than chicken. How many times can you coax, cajole or bribe him? So the inner deviousness of a mother surfaces and you come up with thousand ways to incorporate healthy vegetables with the chicken making it a one pot meal.

In this dish I have used palak, methi and kasuri methi. This gives a strong flavour to the chicken and if you are not a methi lover you can cut back on the methi and kasuri methi. My son, however, has no issues with a slightly bitter taste and so I am using the greens quite liberally.

Ingredients

1 bunch spinach

1 bunch methi

2 tbsp kasuri methi

800 gms chicken

1 tsp cumin seeds

2 onions, chopped

2 tomatoes, chopped

1 tbsp ginger paste

1 tbsp garlic paste

3 green chillies

1 tbsp cumin powder

2 tbsp coriander powder

1 tbsp garam masala powder

1 tsp turmeric powder

Salt to taste

½ cup milk

Wash the chicken and apply some salt to it. Keep aside as you prepare the rest of the dish.

Finely chop the palak and methi and wash them really well. I usually wash them four times because even a grit of sand can ruin the whole dish.

Heat some oil and add the cumin seeds and green chillies. When they start spluttering add the ginger and garlic pastes.

 Fry for a minute then add the chopped onions. Fry till the onions become translucent. 

Add the chopped tomatoes, cover and cook till they are mushy. 

Now add all the dry masalas. Saute till the oil starts leaving the sides. 

Add the chopped palak and methi. 

Add the salt, cover and cook till all the water evaporates and the greens look dry. 

Now add the chicken pieces and saute for five minutes on high flame. The chicken pieces will be well coated with the masala. Add crushed kasuri methi. 

now slowly add the milk, stirring all the while.Once it comes to a boil then cover and cook till the chicken is done. 

This is a very simple recipe and yet it has a very complex taste.