Best Afghani Chicken With Spinach Recipes

AFGHANI CHICKEN WITH SPINACH

Steps:

• Flour the chicken breasts.
• Sear in olive oil.
• Add onion; saute 2 minutes.
• Add garlic.
• Add turmeric, nutmeg, and cinnamon; cook 1 minute; do not burn.
• Add tomatoes and chicken stock.
• Bake in oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit covered for 1 hour until meat is tender.
• Remove dish from oven.
• Add spinach; stir until wilted.
• While spinach is wilting, place pine nuts on cookie sheet; roast for 3 minutes in oven; do not burn.
• Cool slightly.
• Add yogurt and lemon juice.
• Add toasted pine nuts to top.

CHICKEN KABULI PULAO (AFGHANISTAN)

Steps:

• Place chicken pieces, onions and hot water in a large pot.
• Cover and simmer for about 1 hour.
• Add salt to taste.
• Remove chicken, reserving stock & discard cooked onions.
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Heat 2 tbs of the butter over medium high heat and fry chicken pieces containing bones, salting as needed.
• Boil a large amount of water with sea salt and cook the rice in it for exactly 8 minutes. Set aside in a pot until ready to assemble.
• Make stock sauce:
• Brown onions in butter and remove from heat.
• Add cardamom cumin, freshly ground black pepper & saffron liquid and mash with onion to form a paste.
• Add about 1/2 pt of the chicken stock; simmer for 5 minutes and taste for seasoning.
• Combine cooked rice, stock sauce as needed (I don't find it became a sauce so I added the onion paste with some broth as needed to finish cooking the rice) and chicken; place in a buttered casserole. Cover.
• Fry carrot matchsticks in 1/2 tbs butter and add dark raisins to them at the very end.
• Sprinkle partially cooked carrot matchsticks and raisins on top of chicken and rice and cover tightly with aluminum foil or cover.
• Place in oven for 35 minutes.
• Chopped toasted pistachios or slivered almonds may be added over the dish just before serving if so wished.
• There most probably will be left over stock that is very good even as a soup on it's own and probably served that way in an Afghani household.
• Enjoy!

SPICY, HOT AFRICAN CHICKEN WITH SPINACH

Steps:

• Rinse off chicken and cut off extra fat. Sprinkle with salt. Set aside.
• Peel garlic cloves (4-6).
• Wash and dry spinach.
• Heat olive oil and butter in a large pot. Keep heat low so oil does not smoke.
• Add garlic to oil in pan and heat until brown, remove with spoon and set aside (be careful)
• Add chicken to pan and turn heat to medium.
• Put a good sear on the chicken until it is browned.
• Add half water to pan and deglaze. This will get the chicken flavor off the bottom of the pan.
• Add bouillon and pepper to water and bring to a boil. You now have your chicken simmering in a broth.
• Reduce pan liquid by half. Cook until chicken is falling off the bone.
• Add peanut butter, browned garlic, and paprika.
• Add spinach and stir until all ingredient have integrated (10 minutes at least).
• Watch it close so it doesn't burn.
• The stew should be thick when you remove it. If its runny then let it simmer until it thickens.

AFGHAN SPINACH

Steps:

• Wash the green onions and cut off the very ends (both ends). roughly chop and put into a food processor. Pulse until finely chopped.
• Put the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. When the heat is hot, add the green onion and stir-fry for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, roughly chop 1/2 bunch cilantro (fresh green coriander) and pulse it in the food processor until finely chopped.
• Add the cilantro and spinach to the frying pan and stir for a minute until everything is well mixed.
• Add all the spices and stir again.
• Add the water, cover, and cook for 10 minutes. Check to see if the spinach is very tender, if not, recover and cook 5 more minutes.
• Remove cover and continue to cook over medium heat until all of the liquid has evaporated.
• Good seved with fresh basmati rice. I also like to eat this with lamb.