Spicy Mashed Chicken

Spicy Mashed Chicken is ‘tasty’ chicken ‘mash’ type feeds that you can make up at home, using left over kitchen vegetable scraps, corn, pellets and bread- not to b confused with chicken and mashed ‘home cooking’ recipes for ours.

The only problem with preparing Spicy mashed chicken at home; is that if you have a compost heap, you’ll have to choose which vegetable and kitchen scraps are ‘saved’ for the mashed chicken recipe mixture, and which are going to be put on the nourishment heap! Also the amount of mashed chicken that you can prepare is obviously restricted to the amount of kitchen vegetable and bread waste that you make.

I prepared this Spicy mashed chicken recipe the other night and it had such simple flavors and lots of beautiful sauce so it ticked my boxes for a supplement of creamy mashed! It’s funny how when we cook we often keep adding things to prepare recipes better when in fact the simpler the recipe often means the best flavor.

This recipe was like that. I could have added lots of things to ‘improve it’—mushroom, capsicum, spinach or pancetta for example and whilst it would have changed the flavors it would not essentially have prepared it better. Simple, fresh flavors with no adornment. I like slow cooking too. Not only does it bring out the flavors, it’s best to cook something up early, pop it in the oven and have it ready when you are. Now we don’t often eat in front of the fire but a bowl of this and a crackling fire just looked to go hand in hand!

Nutrition Information

Per serving: Calories—268, Calories from fat—90, Total fat—10g, Saturated fat—2g, Cholesterol—49mg, Sodium—230mg, Total Carbohydrate—22g, Dietary fiber—8g, Sugar—7g, Protein—23g. Vitamin A—90%, Vitamin C—46%, Calcium—6%, Iron—23%, Potassium—2%.

Ingredients

250gm skinless, boneless Chicken

2 finely chopped big onions

1/4 green capsicum

1/2 finely chopped ginger

2 finely chopped tomatoes

2 green peppers

2 finely chopped garlic

1 chopped dry red pepper

1 teaspoon Kasoori methi

1 teaspoon coriander powder

1/2 teaspoon garam masala

1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

1/4 teaspoon pepper powder

1 teaspoon chopped coriander leaves

2-3 tablespoons oil

Salt to taste

How to make Spicy Mashed Chicken

Cut the boneless chicken into very little pieces. Cut the capsicum into small cubes. Heat oil in a pan, add the onions, garlic and ginger and sauté until onion becomes soft. Add the capsicum and 7-8 pieces tomatoes and fry well for 3-4 minutes. Add the chicken, mix well and cook until chicken starts to turn white in color. Add the remaining tomatoes and mix well. Add the dry red pepper, green peppers, salt, pepper powder, coriander powder, coriander leaves and kasoori methi, mix well. Cook for 8-10 minutes, until the chicken is cooked and the oil starts separating. Squeeze half of lemon juice and mix well. Remove from heat and serve with rice.