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Easy Indian Recipes To Spice Up Your Life

These easy Indian recipes are delicious, satisfying and healthy. Created with a fusion of herbs and spices, Indian Cuisine is renowned for its intensity of flavour, versatility and colourful presentation, and has grown in popularity all over the world. Ingredients used in Indian cooking are now available in most major cities across the globe, and this cooking has evolved in modern times to incorporate influences from many different cultures, both eastern and western. These recipes are healthy variations of traditional Indian food. For a more detailed description of the spices used in these recipes, see the Healthy Spices page on this website.

These recipes are suitable for people following the weight watchers program, as points values have been calculated, so they can be used as weight watchers recipes.

Butter Chicken,Tandoori Chicken, Spring Onion and Ginger Chicken, Beef Curry

Easy Indian Recipes: Spring Onion and Ginger Chicken

There are many recipes for curries, and this one is a reduced fat version of a curry, as it uses only a little olive oil to saute the garlic and onions.

Note: Nutritional values are provided per serving. Fat values refer to Saturated Fat. Points values refer to the Weight Watchers point system

tandoori chicken Serves:4
Prep Time:30 mins
Cook Time:30 mins
Calories:257
Sat Fat:1.8
Points:5.5


Ingredients
500 g chicken breast fillet (cut into 2-3cm cubes)

2 tablespoon olive oil

1 cup chopped spring onions

2 teaspoons crushed ginger

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon tumeric

3 medium grated tomatoes

3 tablespoons low fat plain yoghurt

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon coarsely crushed red chilli

Method
  1. Saute green onion and ginger in olive oil, in a large saucepan
  2. Add chicken, salt, and tumeric and fry until chicken is firm.
  3. Remove chicken from pan.
  4. Add tomatoes, cumin, cayenne pepper, red chilli and yoghurt and cook for 10 minutes until thick.
  5. Add chicken back into pan and cook for 20 minutes.
  6. Garnish with chopped spring onion and serve with Naan bread (bread not included in nutritional value assessment)


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