How to Make Tasty Chicken Balti

Chicken Balti.

You can cook Chicken Balti using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Balti

1. Prepare 220 grams of boneless skinless chicken thighs diced.
2. You need 1 tbsp of lime juice.
3. Prepare 1/2 tsp of hot smoked paprika.
4. You need 1 tbsp of sunflower oil.
5. You need stick of Cinnamon.
6. You need 2 of cardamom pods.
7. Prepare 1/2 of green chilli.
8. You need of Sprinkling of cumin seeds.
9. It's 1/2 of onion diced.
10. It's 1 inch of of, coarsely grated ginger.
11. It's 1 of garlic cloves, finely chopped.
12. Prepare 1/4 tsp of turmeric.
13. It's 1/2 tsp of ground cumin.
14. It's 1/2 tsp of ground coriander.
15. You need 1/2 tsp of garam masala.
16. You need 150 ml of passata.
17. It's 1/2 of red pepper sliced.
18. It's 1 of medium tomato chopped.
19. You need of Large handful baby spinach.
20. It's handful of fresh coriander, chopped.
21. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.
22. You need 75 ml of water.

Chicken Balti instructions

1. Put the chicken in a medium bowl. Mix in the lime juice, paprika, chilli powder and a grinding of black pepper, set aside to marinate whilst we prepare the veggies..
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3. Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a non-stick pan. Place in the cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, chilli and cumin seeds, and stir to release the flavour. Add in the onion, garlic and ginger and fry over a medium-high heat for 3-4 mins until the onion starts to turn brown..
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5. Add the remaining oil, then drop in the chicken and stir-fry for 2-3. Then pour in the turmeric, cumin, ground coriander and garam masala into the pan, turn down the heat so it slowly simmers for a few mins, then add the passata the water, then add the slices of pepper..
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7. Keep the heat low so it slowly simmers down which should be 15 – 20 minutes. Leave it longer if you like it just gets better.
8. Once the chicken is tender add the chopped tomato, simmer for 2-3 mins, then add the spinach and turn it over in the pan to just wilt. If you want to thin down the sauce, splash in a little more water.Enjoy.
9. Enjoy.