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Chicken Stew - Indian Style

A thick, rich, chicken stew with an Indian flair. Great alone or over rice, wonderous as a filling, for tacos, puffs, or pies
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings: 4 people
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Calories: 1325
Ingredients Equipment Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 6 ea Chicken thighs Skin on, Bone in
  • 1 ea Sweet Onion Peeled, Diced
  • 4 cloves Garlic Peeled, Minced
  • 1 tbsp Ginger Peeled, Grated
  • 2 tsp Garam Marsala
  • 2 tsp Cumin Seed Toasted, Ground
  • 2 tsp Tumeric Ground
  • 1 tsp Coriander Seed Toasted, Ground
  • 1/2 lb Fingerling Potatoes Scrubbed, Quartered
  • 2 ea Carrots Large, Scrubbed, 1/4" Coins
  • 1 cup Green Peas Frozen
  • 2 tbsp Ghee Use butter and foam out well
  • 2 tbsp Tomato Paste
  • 1/2 cup Heavy Cream
  • 3 cups Chicken Stock Make your own

Equipment

  • InstaPot

Method
 

  1. Wash chicken, pat dry and season liberally with salt and pepper
  2. Set the Instapot to sauté, add ghee / butter
  3. Place skin down in instapot. Cook until golden brown without turning, about 8–10 minutes. Transfer chicken to a plate
  4. Add onion, and cook until the onion is soft, translucent and beginning to take color
  5. Add garlic and ginger, stir and cook until fragrant, ~60-90 sec
  6. Add tomato paste and spices, cook until tomato paste darkens and spices bloom
  7. Add chicken and plate drippings to pot, along with cream, and stock
  8. Exit Sauté mode and select manual, high pressure, 15 minutes
  9. Lid up and cook
  10. After the time is up, quick release pressure and remove chicken, to cool
  11. Select sauté, and add potatoes, carrots to sauce, cook until potatoes are fork tender and sauce has thickened. Stir regularly to avoid potatoes sticking to the bottom of the pot
  12. While the potatoes are cooking and the chicken has cooled, remove skin, debone and chop into bite sized pieces, whence complete add chicken to pot.
  13. When potatoes are fork tender add the thawed green peas and stir, cook for an additional 5 minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 1325kcalCarbohydrates: 107gProtein: 38gFat: 86gSaturated Fat: 49gCholesterol: 267mgSodium: 1367mgPotassium: 2713mgFiber: 16gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 3734IUVitamin C: 116mgCalcium: 248mgIron: 11mg

Notes

Another bit of cultural misappropriation..
A great stew, but also a wonderous filling for tacos, puffs, pies.

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