Quick & Easy Indian Dinner
This quick Indian-style chicken dinner uses boneless chicken thighs, onion, ginger, garlic, curry spices, tomato puree, spinach, peas, and a little cream, then gets served over rice.
- Prep
- 20 minutes
- Cook
- 40 minutes
- Total
- 1 hour
Ingredients
Chicke
Spice Mix
Everything Else
Instructions
- 1.
Preheat large heavy bottomed pot over high heat.
- 2.
Season chicken on both sides with salt.
- 3.
Add a couple of glugs of oil to preheated pot followed by chicken. Allow to sear for 3-4 minutes on the first side. Flip and continue to cook for 2-3 minutes on side 2.
- 4.
While the chicken cooks, add onion, ginger, and garlic to a food processor. Process until broken down into paste.
- 5.
Once chicken is cooked, remove it from pot and place on plate/tray.
- 6.
After chicken is removed, add paste to chicken pot followed by pinch of salt. Stir and scrape up chicken bits with wooden spoon. Continue to cook for about 2 minutes. Add curry spices and tomato paste. Stir to combine and allow to bloom for 30 seconds. Stir in water and tomato puree. Cover and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring at least once during that time.
- 7.
After chicken rests, cut into bite sized pieces.
- 8.
Add chopped chicken and its juices back into the pot. Stir and bring to a simmer. Add pinch of salt and pinch sugar.
- 9.
Stir in spinach, peas, and cream, cover and cook for about 1 minute over medium heat.
- 10.
Taste for seasoning and adjust if needed. Serve over rice.