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Spiced Chicken with Black Cumin Seeds
Description This shows just how under-rated Garam Masala is as a marinade, and illustrates beautifully the wonderful flavour of black cumin - make sure you use the true jeera kala, not nigella seeds. It's an easy meal to put together at the end of a busy day, and if you don't have any ground almond to provide a little thickening, just mix the garam masala with a little plain flour when you coat the chicken.
Ingredients
At a glance
Chicken & Pork
Serves
2-3

4 boned chicken thighs, trimmed

1 tablespoon Garam Masala

1/4 teaspoon medium chilli flakes

1 teaspoon black cumin seeds

2 spring onions sliced

1 garlic clove crushed, or a pinch of garlic powder

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1/4 cup tomato puree

1/2 cup plain yoghurt

1 teaspoon ground almonds

1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste

1 teaspoon fenugreek leaves

Methods/steps

1.   Pat garam masala onto all sides of the chicken and marinate 30 minutes.

2.   Heat pan, dry roast black cumin seeds and chilli flakes for 1 minute.

3.  Add oil, spring onions, garlic and chicken, and brown chicken on both sides over high heat.

4.  Remove chicken to a plate, reduce heat and add tomato, yoghurt, salt, almonds and fenugreek leaves.  Simmer, stirring, for 4-5 minutes.

5.  Return chicken and any juices to pan, simmer until cooked through.

6.  Serve with rice.

Additional Tips
Whenever we cook this lovely Indian-inspired dish, we find it so tasty that we wish we'd made more.  The recipe can easily be doubled so that we have left-overs!
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