Butter Chicken - Recipe

Butter Chicken

 Ingredients\

• 1 kg boneless chicken skin removed

• Juice of 1 lime/ lemon

• Salt to taste

• 1 tsp red chilli powder (adjust to suit your taste)

• 6 cloves

• 8-10 peppercorns

• 1" stick of cinnamon

• 2 bay leaves

• 8-10 almonds

• Seeds from 3-4 pods of cardamom

• 1 cup fresh, unsweetened yogurt (must not be sour)

• 3 tbsps vegetable/ canola/ sunflower cooking oil

• 2 onions chopped finely

• 2 tsps garlic paste

• 1 tsp ginger paste

• 2 tsps coriander powder

• 1 tsp cumin powder

• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder

• 400g/ 14 oz of chopped tomatoes, ground into a smooth paste in a food processor

• 1/2 liter chicken stock

• 2 tbsps kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves)

• 3 tbsps unmelted, soft butter

• Salt to taste

• Coriander leaves to garnish

  Preparation

  Mix the chicken, lime juice , salt and red  chilly powder in a large, non-metallic bowl. Cover and allow to marinate for 1 hour.Heat a flat pan

  

  or griddle on medium heat and gently roast (stirring frequently) the cloves, peppercorns, cinnamon, bay leaves and almonds till they darken slightly. Cool and add the cardamom seeds. Now grind into a coarse powder in a clean, dry coffee grinder.Mix the yoghurt, above whole spice powder (from previous step), coriander, cumin and turmeric powder together and add them to the chicken. Allow to marinate for another hour 

  Heat the oil in a deep pan on medium heat. When hot, add the onions. Fry till a pale golden brown in color and then add the ginger and garlic paste. Fry for a minute.

        Add only the chicken from the chicken-spice mix and fry till sealed (chicken  will turn opaque and the flesh will go from pink to whitish in color).  

Then your butter chicken is ready... Enjoy it your family friends and relative .

 

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