Methi Chicken: Healthy Microwave Recipe

Chicken

oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 15:33

Methi chicken is a dish you can make in a very healthy manner as an Indian microwave recipe. When you cook chicken as a part of a methi recipe, it imbibes the health benefits of fenugreek in it. The best part about chicken is that by itself it has a very neutral taste unlike mutton which has a very strong flavour of its own. So, chicken in this methi chicken recipe takes on the flavour of the nutritious herb used to cook it. So by making this Indian microwave recipe you are getting the nutritional value of two, both chicken and methi together.

Methi recipes, especially the ones cooked with dried methi leaves are bitter due to the slight bitterness present in fenugreek leaves. But this Indian chicken recipe makes use of curd that softens out the bitterness of methi. This Indian microwave recipe gives you an Indian curry healthy in constitution and uncomplicated in procedure.

Ingredients For Methi Chicken:

1. Chicken-500 grams (cut in medium sized pieces)
2. Kasuri Methi (dried methi or fenugreek leaves)-1 cup
3. Curd-100 grams
4. Onions-2
5. Garlic-8 cloves
6. Ginger-4 (1 inch pieces)
7. Ground pepper-2 tablespoon
8. Pepper corns-10
9. Methi or fenugreek seeds-2 tablespoons
10. Cumin seeds-2 teaspoons
11. Bay leaf-1
12. Garam masala-1 teaspoon
13. Ghee-1 tablespoon
14. Oil-2 tablespoons
15. Salt to taste

Procedure For Methi Chicken:

• Make a paste of fenugreek seeds, 1 onion, garlic cloves and ginger pieces in the grinder.
• Marinate the chicken with curd, ground pepper and this paste. Leave it at least for an hour.
• Meanwhile, chop the remaining onion finely in very tiny pieces so that it melts in the even heat of the microwave.
• After the marination time is over, heat oil in a deep microwavable pan for 2 minutes on maximum power.
• Add bay leaf, pepper corns and cumin seeds to the steaming oil and microwave it for another 2 minutes on the same settings.
• Add the chopped onions after this and cover and cook for 5 minutes on 80 percent power.
• After this, add the marinated chicken, salt and mix the fried ingredients with the marinade well.
• Cover and cook for 8 minutes on 60 percent power. Do not add water because the curd will release a lot of water when cooked.
• Add the kasuri methi and hot melted ghee from the top and stir it. Cook for another 6-7 minutes on 60 percent power. Add a little water now if the gravy has really dried up.
• Sprinkle garam masala on it once the bowl is removed from the oven.

Your methi chicken is ready to eat. Serve it with hot rotis or parathas for a great meal.