Chicken Saag (Saagwala)
Use your Thermomix to make this chicken saag recipe. You can cook everything in the bowl - including blending the spinach into a tasty sauce.
Ingredients
- 5 black peppercorns
- 4 cloves
- 4 pods cardamom
- 4 cloves garlic peeled
- 4 cm piece of ginger peeled and halved
- 1 large onion peeled, quartered
- 20 g vegetable oil
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tbsp garam masala powder
- 3 tomatoes quartered
- 3 bunches spinach (~900g) trimmed, washed and chopped into quarters
- 1 tbsp Thermomix vegetable stock concentrate
- 600 g chicken breast chopped into 3cm pieces
- Salt to season
Instructions
- Put peppercorns (5), cloves (4) and cardamom (4) into the Thermomix bowl and roast with the measuring cup (MC) off for 3 minutes | 100C | Reverse | Speed 1; remove to a small bowl
- Put garlic cloves, ginger and onion into the Thermomix bowl, chop for 5 seconds | Speed 5
- Add oil (20g) and cook with the MC off for 2 minutes | 100C | Speed 1
- Add whole spices plus coriander powder (1tsp), cumin powder (1 tsp), and garam masala powder (1tbsp) into the bowl and cook with the MC off for 7 minutes | 100C | Speed 1
- Add tomatoes and chop for 3 seconds | Speed 5
- Cook with MC off for 10 minutes | 100C | Speed 1
- Add 1/3 of the spinach and stock and cook with MC off for 3 minutes | 100C | Speed 1; use the spatula to mix the spinach into the sauce
- Add another third of the spinach and cook with MC off for 2 minutes | 100C | Speed 1; use the spatula to mix the spinach into the sauce
- Repeat step 8 with the last of the spinach
- Blend spinach mixture with MC on; going slowly from Speed 1 to 8 for 30 seconds
- Add chicken and cook with MC half off for 15 minutes | 100C | Reverse| Speed soft