How to make Green Chicken

Ingredients:  Chicken – 500gm, Onion – 1big size, Tomato(pieces)- 1 big size, Garlic- 8-10 cloves, Ginger-1&1/2 inch, Boiled smashed palak(spinach)- 1 cup(125ml), Coriander leaf paste- ½ cup (125 ml), Curd – 2tbsp, Kasoori methi- ½ tsp, Bay leaf- 1 big size, Cinnamon – 1medium size, Clove – 2pcs, Cardamom(green)- 3-4 pcs, Oil – 5tbsp, Cumin powder- ½ tsp, Coriander powder- ½ tsp, Red chilly powder – ½ tsp, Turmeric powder- ½ tsp, Salt- As per taste, Sugar- 1/2tsp, Garam masala- 1pinch.

Process:  Wash the chicken with warm water. Make a paste of onion, garlic and ginger. Then make a mixture of ginger, garlic and onion paste with curd, cumin powder, coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder, salt, boiled spinach paste, and coriander leaf. Marinate the chicken with this mixture and leave it for 30 minutes.

Heat the frying pan in low flame to dry up and then add oil to it. Then add sugar to it, and wait till it caramelised. After that add bay leaf, clove, cinnamon, cardamom and stir it for a while. Then add tomato pieces to it, stir it until the tomato pieces become soft. Then add marinated chicken to it and stir the contents for 5 minutes. Then close the lid of the frying pan and keep it in a low flame for 10 minutes. After that when the chicken becomes soft and fried, keep on further boiling till the water in the frying pan dries up and oils started coming out from the preparation. Then sprinkle Kasoori methi and garam masala to the entire preparation and again close the frying pan lid and put the stove off and leave the preparation for a while.

Serve the Green Chicken with Aloo parathas, plain parathas, onion parathas, ghee rice, jeera rice or veg Pulau.