Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Butter Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Butter Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 35 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Make ready For Chicken Tikka Marination:(Part 1)
- Prepare Skinless and Boneless chicken cubes
- Take Salt as per requirement
- Get lemon juice
- Make ready Ginger-Garlic paste
- Get For Chicken Tikka Marination: (Part 2)
- Make ready oil
- Take Kashmiri Red chilli powder
- Prepare Hung Yoghurt (yoghurt with no water)
- Take Salt as per requirement
- Get lemon juice
- Get For Butter Chicken Gravy:
- Get water
- Get tomato (medium)
- Take small roughly chopped Onion
- Take bay leaves
- Prepare small cinamon Stick
- Prepare Cloves
- Make ready small green cardamom
- Prepare garlic cloves
- Prepare small ginger piece
- Prepare Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Make ready Butter (unsalted)
- Prepare chasew nuts (non roasted)
- Prepare salt
- Take make sure to check step
- Prepare For Cooking Gravy:
- Take Chopped ginger
- Get chopped green chillies
- Take Salt as per requirement
- Prepare Kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder)
- Make ready Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Make ready sugar
- Prepare cup thick heavy cream
- Take Chopped Green onion/coriander leaves for garnish
Instructions 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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