Chicken Saag

Ingredients

• Red peppers

  Hot chili, raw

  2 pepper or 90g

• Garlic

  Raw

  2 clove or 6g

• Ginger root

  Raw

  2g

• Onions

  Raw

  1 medium or 110g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  ½ tsp or 2g

• Cumin

  Spices, cumin seed

  1 tsp, ground or 3g

• Coriander seed

  Spices

  1 tsp or 2g

• Garam Masala

  Frontier

  1 tsp or 3g

• Tumeric Powder

  2 ½ grams or 3g

• Garlic

  2 cloves raw - Whole Foods Market

  4 cloves, raw or 12g

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, raw

  4 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook chicken) or 284g

• Red Split Lentils

  Waitrose

  150 grams or 150g

• Napolina Chopped Tomatoes

  400g

• Spinach

  Raw

  260g

• Bread, chapati or roti, plain, commercially prepared

  1 piece or 68g

Directions

1. Blend the chillies, garlic, ginger and onion to a paste.
2. Heat 1 teaspoon of olive oil in a large pan and gently fry the paste for 2 minutes, until fragrant.
3. Add the dry spices and cook for a further minute, before adding the chicken pieces, stirring to coat in the spices.
4. Cook for 5 minutes before adding the lentils and chopped tomatoes with along with 1½ tins of water.
5. Simmer slowly for 25 minutes, season to taste, add the spinach and stir until wilted.
6. Serve with warmed rotis.