Palak Chicken!
This is the first post for a survival guide for students in europe! In the next few posts I will share some ideas to keep eating "Indian" food while you are here without tearing your hair apart. This is the first post, so lets start with the basics1. Carry a pressure cooker if you plan to cook! Its not like you can't do without it, but it will definitely broaden the range of items you can make.
2. Carry spices. Get Red chilly powder, cumin, black pepper, Garam masala and maybe a couple of boxes of premixed ground spices like "Kitchen King".
3. Carry packets of "Bhuna Masala". I got both the varieties sold by Maggi in India and it really made life easy.
That't it! Please DONOT carry too much of the packed food. MTR, ITC whatever, they are bad and they stink of preservatives and I've thrown most of them away.
Now lets get to the Palak (Spinach) chicken Indian style.
Ingredients
- Chicken Breast/Poulet Filet/Haenschen - 2 Pieces
- Palak/Spinach/Epinard/Spinat - 1 can/frozen blocks - Boiled and blended (Canned is ready to use, 300 gms)
- Vegetable Oil
- Spices
- Ready masala or Onions grated and Garlic
Recipe
- Cut the chicken into small dices and rub on some salt, pepper and chillies and set them aside
- Heat oil in the pressure cooker and add the onions/masala to the oil and cook for a while (Note that onions in europe are white so don't expect them to turn brown)
- Add the red chillies and mix it into the hot onions and oil
- Add the chicken dices and cook the chicken till it turns white uniformly. Cook it for a few minutes more.
- Add the spinach and cook it to a boil (and half a cup of water if the spinach wasn't canned).
- Then add the salt and close the cooker. Cook for 10 minutes on a medium flame and then leave the cooker alone.
Sprinkle a lot of black pepper on the chicken before eating it. If you leave the cooked chicken for a few hours before eating it, it always tastes better because the flavours seep into the chicken and make it amazing.
This same base can be used for making great pasta as well. Enjoy your meal!
Labels: Chicken, Cooking, Europe, Exchange, Food, Shoe-String, Spinach, Students
