Methi Chicken ( Chicken Cooked Amongst Fenugreek Leaves)

Methi Chicken has been 1 of my go-to recipes when I am inwards a rush too desire to railroad train merely about chicken too arrive quick.This dish also gives me my poly peptide too vegetable inwards 1 pot ( without also many dishes to construct clean afterward cooking).I e'er bring frozen methi leaves inwards my freezer too close of the fourth dimension bring merely about chicken amongst my basic marination of lemon,salt too pepper. The recipe below though has been made amongst fresh methi leaves every bit I late had been to the Indian store.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Chicken : ii lbs
Methi ( fenugreek) leaves: 1 pocket-size bunch
Oil : 1 tbsp ( I role kokosnoot oil)
Onions: ii medium chopped fine
Ginger-garlic paste: 1tbsp
Green chillies: 4-6medium ( depending on your spice level)chopped fine
Haldi(turmeric): 1tsp
Garam masala powder: 1 tsp
Yogurt : 1/2 cup
Cilantro leaves: 1 tbsp chopped fine
Salt to taste

Method:

Clean chicken, cutting it into medium size pieces too proceed aside.

Pluck methi leaves from it's stems, construct clean too proceed aside.

Heat a sauté pan amongst 1tbsp oil, add together chopped onion too sauté until they firstly turning golden brown. Now add together ginger-garlic glue too sauté for a minute. Add chopped light-green chillies, haldi too sauté for a minute. Add cleaned chicken pieces too sauté for 3-4 minutes.Add yogurt, mix well.Add the cleaned methi( fenugreek leaves), salt. Mix well, comprehend too permit it simmer for 15-20 mins on depression flaming until the chicken & methi leaves are cooked. Add garam masala, mix well.

Garnish amongst cilantro leaves.

Serve hot amongst basmati rice or roti.

Cooking made easy:

While cooking chicken, to a greater extent than ofttimes than non at that topographic point is no ask to add together additional H2O every bit the chicken leaves water. Therefore merely proceed the flaming depression too permit it railroad train inwards its ain juices. Add H2O at the goal if needed.

Methi (fenugreek) leaves should e'er hold upwardly plucked too non chopped. According to my mother, patently chopping methi leaves makes it to a greater extent than bitter.

Freshly chopped ginger & garlic tin post away hold upwardly used inwards this dish instead of the paste.

Frozen methi (fenugreek) leaves tin post away hold upwardly used instead of fresh ones inwards the inwards a higher house recipe. If using frozen methi leaves, role 1 loving cup for the inwards a higher house recipe.

Tip for good for you lot living:

For centuries fenugreek leaves too seeds bring been used inwards Indian cuisine too bring been known for its medicinal properties. It patently aids inwards digestion, helps blood purification too helps lower/maintain blood saccharide levels inwards diabetics. It also patently facilitates undertaking too helps heighten pectus milk production. There is no conclusive scientific bear witness for whatever of these claims.

References:

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-733-FENUGREEK.aspx?activeIngredientId=733&activeIngredientName=FENUGREEK
http://health.india.com/diseases-conditions/15-health-benefits-of-methi/

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