Spiced Chicken with Spinach

Ingredients

• chicken

  cut into 8 pieces skinned, and trimmed of excess fat
  3 lbs
• all purpose flour

  for dusting the chicken
  1 unit
• canola oil
  1½ to 2 tbsp
• yellow onions

  finely diced
  2 small
• ripe medium tomatoes or 8 oz can whole plum tomatoes preferably low sodium

  drained and chopped
  2 unit
• bunches fresh spinach

  about 1 lb, thoroughly washed stemmed, drained, and coarsely chopped
  2 small
• cloves garlic

  minced
  3 medium
• ground coriander
  1 tsp
• coarsely ground black pepper to taste
  1 unit
• cloves
  3 whole
• ground turmeric
  ¼ tsp
• good-quality curry powder
  ¼ tsp
• salt to taste

  optional
  1 unit
• skim milk
  ¼ cup