Chicken and spinach balti

This fresh-tasting easy chicken curry is a delicious recipe to have up your sleeve when you’re cooking for two.

By John Burton Race
From Take on the Takeaway

Ingredients

For the marinade

  • 2.5cm/1in piece fresh ginger, peeled
  • 2 garliccloves, peeled
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 lime, juice only
  • ½ tsp ground coriander
  • ½ tsp chilli powder
  • ½ tsp ground turmeric
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • 2 chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 75ml/2½fl oz plain yoghurt

For the curry

  • 1 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 red onion, peeled and finely sliced
  • 2 tomatoes, seeds removed, flesh finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • splash water
  • 75ml/2½fl oz double cream
  • 150g/5oz baby spinachleaves

To serve

  • small handful fresh corianderleaves, chopped
  • 100g/3½oz basmati rice, rinsed and drained, then cooked according to packet