Afghani Chicken With Spinach
Recipe: #19962
July 05, 2015
Categories: Chicken, Spinach, Middle Eastern, Sunday Dinner, High Protein, No Eggs, Bone-in Pieces, Chicken Dinner, more
"Outstanding chicken dish! What I changed: First thing I did was lightly toasted the pine nuts in the same pan to cook the chicken. Used skinless/boneless chicken breasts pounded to 1/4" thickness and browned them until golden on both sides then transferred to a baking dish. Lightly browned the onion and garlic in the same pan, scraping up the brown bits. Added the spices, half pureed tomatoes and a few heirloom tomatoes chopped up. The amount of tomatoes was cut in half, too. Spooned this mixture over the chicken. Baked. A pot of basmati rice was cooked separately. Didn't realize I was out of spinach and subbed arugula. First, lightly wilted the arugula and arranged on platter with a ring of basmati. The cooked chicken mixture was spooned on top of that. The yogurt was served separately. Each serving had a dollop of yogurt with a light drizzle of olive oil and then a garnish of pine nuts. review from other place"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (620.1 g)
- Calories 727
- Total Fat - 32.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.4 g
- Cholesterol - 211.2 mg
- Sodium - 782.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 27.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.4 g
- Sugars - 11 g
- Protein - 79.8 g
- Calcium - 126.5 mg
- Iron - 4.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 41.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Flour the chicken breasts.
Step 2
Sear in olive oil. Add onion; saute 2 minutes. Add garlic. turmeric, nutmeg, and cinnamon; cook 1 minute; do not burn. Add tomatoes and chicken stock.
Step 3
Bake in oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit covered for 1 hour until meat is tender.
Step 4
Remove dish from oven. Add spinach; stir until wilted.
Step 5
While spinach is wilting, place pine nuts on cookie sheet; roast for 3 minutes in oven; do not burn. Cool slightly.
Step 6
Add yogurt and lemon juice.
Step 7
Add toasted pine nuts to top.
Tips
No special items needed.