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Saag Murghi Chicken in Mustard Greens Sauce
A cream-free saag chicken: yogurt-spiced bone-in chicken browned, then braised under a blanket of mustard greens and spinach wilted over slow-caramelised onion and garlic, blitzed to a textured sauce and finished with pounded rock salt.

- YieldServes 4
- Hands-on40 min
- Total2 h 11 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Marinade
- 120 gplain yogurt, about 1/2 cup
- 2 tbspfresh cilantro leaves and tender stems, finely chopped
- 1 tbspcoriander seeds, ground
- 1 tspcumin seeds, ground
- 1 tspcayenne
- 1 tspcoarse kosher or sea salt
- ¼ tspground turmeric
- 1.6 kgwhole chicken, skin removed, cut into 8 pieces
- 4 tbspcanola oil, divided
Greens
- 1medium red onion, finely chopped
- 5 clovesgarlic, large, finely chopped
- 225 gfresh mustard greens, washed well and coarsely chopped
- 225 gfresh spinach leaves, washed well and coarsely chopped
- 120 mlwater
- 1 tsprock salt, pounded
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