Chicken Stew

Chicken Stew

Chicken Stew

This is probably the easiest and lightest chicken recipe I know of, which is healthy too as it contains lots of vegetables. Specially, if you are conscious about your health, this would be ideal. You might choose lean meat for this. The whole procedure is quite simple and takes very little effort to make it.

Ingredients :

Main:

• Chicken - 500gm - preferably breast pieces.
• Onion - 1 big piece or 2 medium sized - finely chopped.
• Carrot - 2/3 ones - chopped into around 1" cubes.
• Potatoes - 2 medium sized ones - cut into 8 pieces each.
• Beans - 10 sticks - cut into 1" wide pieces.
• Tomatoes - 2 pieces - cut into 4 pieces each.
  

For cooking :

• Butter / ghee / cooking oil - 2tbsp.
• Cornflour - 2tbsp - to thicken the gravy.
  

Spices :

• Bay leaf - 2 leaves.
• Cloves - 3/4 pieces.
• Black pepper - 6/7 whole peppers crushed.
• Ginger-garlic paste - 1tbsp.
  

Procedure :

Wash chicken pieces and brush with only salt.

Heat ghee/oil in a pan (kadaai), when about to smoke add the bay-leaf, and the rest one by one in same order. Then add the chopped onions and stir to transparent.

Add all the vegetables from the main ingredients section, and saute for few minutes. Add chicken too and mix well with the vegetables. Transfer the whole content into pressure-cooker, and necessary water with the cornflower powder dissolved in it, and cook up to 1-whistle.

Serve hot with roti's or bread.