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Butter Chicken Recipe
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter chicken using 25 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Take For the chicken marinade
- Prepare 800 g boneless and skinless chicken cut into bit sized pieces
- Get 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- Prepare 1 1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
- Take 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- Prepare 2 teaspoons garam masala
- Make ready 1 teaspoon turmeric
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Get 1 teaspoon mild chilli powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare For the Sauce
- Take 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Prepare 1 tablespoon butter + 1 tablespoon oil)
- Prepare 1 large onion, sliced or chopped
- Take 1 tablespoon ginger, minced
- Make ready 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons garam masala
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- Make ready 400 g plum tomatoes
- Prepare 2 tablespoons tomato puree
- Prepare 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (or to taste)
- Get 1 cup single/double cream
- Get 1 tablespoon sugar
Steps to make Butter Chicken:
- In a bowl, combined chicken with all of the ingredients for the chicken marinade: let marinate for 30 mins to an hour (or overnight for more flavourful chicken).
- Heat oil in a large pan or pot over medium-high heat. When sizzling, add chicken pieces in batches of two or three, making sure not to crowd the pan. Fry until browned for only 3 minutes on each side. Set aside and keep warm. (You will finish cooking the chicken in the sauce.)
- Heat butter or ghee in the same pan. Fry the onions until they start to sweat (about 6 minutes) while scraping up any browned bits stuck on the bottom of the pan.
- Add garlic and ginger and saute for 1 minute until fragrant. Add ground coriander, cumin and garam masala. Let cook for about 20 seconds until fragrant, while stirring occasionally.
- Add plum tomatoes, tomato puree, chili powder and salt. Let simmer for about 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally until sauce thickens and becomes a deep brown red colour.
- Remove from heat, scoop mixture into a blender and blend until smooth. You may need to add a couple tablespoons of water to help it blend (up to 1/4 cup). Work in batches depending on the size of your blender.
- Pour the puréed sauce back into the pan. Stir the cream & sugar. Add the chicken with juices back into the pan and cook for an additional 8-10 minutes until chicken is cooked through and the sauce is thick and bubbling.
- Garnish with chopped coriander and serve with fresh, hot basmati rice.
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