Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Butter Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Butter Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken using 35 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Get For Chicken Tikka Marination:(Part 1)
- Get 300 g Skinless and Boneless chicken cubes
- Prepare Salt as per requirement
- Make ready 1 tbs lemon juice
- Get 1 1/2 tbs Ginger-Garlic paste
- Take For Chicken Tikka Marination: (Part 2)
- Make ready 5 tbs oil
- Get 1 1/2 tbs Kashmiri Red chilli powder
- Make ready 1/2 cup Hung Yoghurt (yoghurt with no water)
- Prepare Salt as per requirement
- Take 1 tbs lemon juice
- Take For Butter Chicken Gravy:
- Get 1 cup water
- Make ready 1 tomato (medium)
- Take 1 small roughly chopped Onion
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 1 small cinamon Stick
- Prepare 2-3 Cloves
- Take 2 small green cardamom
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves
- Get 1 small ginger piece
- Take 1 tbs Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Take 150 g Butter (unsalted)
- Get 5 chasew nuts (non roasted)
- Get salt
- Make ready 6 make sure to check step
- Make ready For Cooking Gravy:
- Prepare 1 tsp Chopped ginger
- Get 1 tsp chopped green chillies
- Get Salt as per requirement
- Make ready Kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder)
- Get 1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tbs sugar
- Make ready Half cup thick heavy cream
- Make ready Chopped Green onion/coriander leaves for garnish
Steps to make Butter Chicken:
- Firstly, Marinate the Chicken in a bowl by adding salt, lemon juice and ginger garlic paste and set aside for 15 - 20 minutes.
- While the First step of chicken marination is done, keep aside and Take a cooking pot And add Water, rougly chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, bay leaves, cinamon, cloves, green cardamom, ginger and garlic, kashmiri red chilli powder, salt and quarter of 150g butter. Let it cook till tomato gets mashy. Off the stove and let it get warm.
- Take a bowl, first add oil and then add the Kashmiri red chilli powder. Mix it well, since the proper colour of the chilli powder will be shown through oil. After, add the hung yoghurt and whisk it well. Add salt and lemon juice. Whisk it nicely.
- Once the First Step of Chicken Marination completes 15-20 minutes, take each chicken pieces squeeze it to remove excess water and add it in the bowl of Marination part 2. Do it one by one. Mix it well and set aside for 15-20 minutes.
- Take the cooked tomato gravy and blend it into fine paste. And after blending, strain the gravy to remove the tomato skin or spices if any. Because we need a fine smooth paste.
- Heat stove, and add the rest buttet into the cooking pot. Add chopped ginger and green chillies, just lightly saute.
- Add the blended puree and let it cook for 5 to 8 minutes.
- While the puree is cooking. Heat a grilling pan or any normal pan (Make sure its a nonstick pan). Add 1 tbs of oil. The pan should be hot enough with medium high flame, so that the chicken doesn't leave any water and then shallow fry it. Don't flip the chicken unless one side is completely done and has burn marks. Do it till the chicken is cooked.
- Check the cooking gravy in mean time. Add salt if needed, kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder), sugar and Chicken. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Finally add the thick heavy cream and mix it. Garnish with chopped green onion/coriander leaves. Serve with chapati or Naan.
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