Chicken Keema with spinach

Chicken keema with spinach

Chicken keema is a wonderful nutritious and healthy dish. Ground
chicken is cooked with spinach, onion, garlic, tomatoes and spices which gives
this dish a great flavor.

Chicken keema is a great combination of protein and vegetable. Keema is a very popular North Indian dish Keema means minced meat. It is usually cook with minced lamb meat but it can be prepared with any kind of meat and combination of vegetable.

Keema is extremely versatile, just changing the combination of meat, vegetable and masala can result in a great new taste and each of them is delicious. Serve chicken keema as a main course with chapattis and rice.

Ingredients:

1 10 Oz pack of frozen chopped spinach or 1 Pound  fresh washed and chopped
    spinach
1   Pound ground chicken (Thigh or Breast ground meat)
3   Medium onions
1    Tablespoon minced garlic
1    Medium ripe tomato or 2 tablespoons tomato sauce
1    Medium green chili -chopped (remove the seeds & membrane to reduce
      the heat)- Optional
1    Tablespoon fresh grated ginger
2    Teaspoons coriander powder
½ Teaspoon red chili powder
½ Teaspoon turmeric powder
½   Teaspoon garam masala or to your taste
2 Small Bay leaves
3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Teaspoon salt or to your taste
2    Tablespoons chopped coriander leaves (optional)
2 Tablespoons of melted butter (optional)
1    Cup of water

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Tomatoes, Onions, Garlic, Ginger, Green Chile, & Coriander leaves

Ground Chicken

Spinach- thawed chopped spinach

Or, Spinach- fresh chopped

Coriander powder

Red chili powder

Turmeric powder

Garam masala

Grated ginger

Minced Garlic

Bay Leaves

Chopped Green chili

Melted Butter

Directions:

1. Thaw the frozen spinach in microwave. If using fresh spinach then wash and
chop the spinach.

2. Use a food chopper or blender to mince the onions and garlic. Mixture should
be Coarse.

In a chopper add onion & garlic

Minced Onion and Garlic

3. On high heat add the oil in a nonstick frying pan or in a sauce pan, add minced
onion and garlic and sauté, while periodically stirring.

4. Onions will have a lot of water so for the first few minutes keep the heat high
so that all the onion water evaporates quickly.

In a pan add oil & minced onion & garlic

Mix onion with oil and fry

5. While onion mixture cooks add the tomato to the same food chopper or
blender and puree.

In the chopper add tomatoes

Puree tomatoes

6. Once the onion water has evaporated turn the heat down to medium and let the
onions fry for 8 to 9 minutes, frequently stir the onions.

Onion become light brown

7. Once the onions become light brown add coriander powder, red chili powder,
turmeric powder and mix with the onions and fry for few seconds.

Add Coriander powder, Red chili powder and Turmeric powder

Mix spices with fried Onions

8. Add tomato puree or tomato sauce in fried onions. With the tomato puree onion
masala become watery turn the heat high for 2 to 3 minutes, so that water
evaporates quickly, and then turn the heat down. Keep stirring the onion masala
frequently.

Add tomato puree

Mix tomato puree with fried onions & spices

9. In about 5 to 6 minutes tomato puree and onion will blend together.

10. Once all the water has evaporated and you see the oil in the pan that means
Onion masala is done.

Onion masala is ready

11. Add thawed or fresh chopped spinach.

Add spinach in onion masala

Mix spinach well with onion masala

12.Add salt and bay leaves and mix.

Add salt and Bay leaves

Mix salt well

13. Add 1 cup of water and mix with spinach and onion masala.

Add water

Mix water with spinach and onion masala

14. Cover the pan and cook on medium heat for to 20 minutes or until spinach
change its green color to yellowish green.

15. While cooking stir periodically so that onion masala mixes with spinach all
the time.

Cover the pan and cook

16. While spinach is cooking in the ground Chicken add water and mix chicken
and dilute it (If you first dilute chicken with water then add and mix chicken
in spinach it does not form big lumps) If you want you can skip this step and
just add minced chicken and mix.

Add water in ground chicken

Chicken is diluted

Mix water with chicken to dilute

Diluted chicken

17. Once Spinach is cooked add ground chicken and mix well with the spinach
and cook for 5 to 6 minutes while continuously stirring and breaking the
lumps of the chicken with the spatula.

Spinach is cooked

Add diluted chicken

Mix Chicken well with Spinach

18. Once Chicken become white and all crumbled, cover the pan and cook for 8
to 10 minutes.

Cover the pan and cook

Chicken spinach keema is cooked

19.. Add grated ginger and chopped green chilies and mix.

Add grated ginger and chopped green chilies

20. Sprinkle Garam Masala and mix, cover the pan and cook for another 5 to 6
minutes.

Add Garam masala

Cover the pan and cook

21. Once keema is cooked add 2 tablespoons of melted butter and cook for
5 minutes while keep stirring continuously, once you start seeing the oil in
the pan turn the stove off.

Chicken keema is cooked

Add melted butter and mix

Chicken keema with spinach is ready

22. Chicken keema should not be too watery it should have thick consistency.

23. When ready to serve remove bay leaves. Transfer the keema in a serving
bowl and garnish it with chopped coriander leaves.

Chicken keema with Spinach

Tips:

1. To avoid forming lumps in the chicken, add raw minced chicken in a bowl
then add 1½ cups of water and mix it with spoon. Dilute the minced chicken,
  and then add it in the cooked spinach and mix frequently for few minutes.

2. Ground turkey meat could be substituted with ground chicken.

3.   Adjust the amount of spinach and ground chicken according to your
preference.

4. If you don't find minced chicken at the store, then buy skinless, boneless
chicken or Chicken breast and wash and dry, then grind in a food processor or a
   chopper. (Skip washing chicken if you do not want to wash)

Chicken pieces

Add Chicken pieces in food processor

Chicken is grinded

Ground chicken

Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.

Thank you

Geeta Seth

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