Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Butter Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Butter Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken using 35 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Take For Chicken Tikka Marination:(Part 1)
- Prepare Skinless and Boneless chicken cubes
- Take Salt as per requirement
- Get lemon juice
- Take Ginger-Garlic paste
- Make ready For Chicken Tikka Marination: (Part 2)
- Make ready oil
- Get Kashmiri Red chilli powder
- Make ready Hung Yoghurt (yoghurt with no water)
- Make ready Salt as per requirement
- Make ready lemon juice
- Prepare For Butter Chicken Gravy:
- Make ready water
- Prepare tomato (medium)
- Take small roughly chopped Onion
- Make ready bay leaves
- Take small cinamon Stick
- Get Cloves
- Get small green cardamom
- Take garlic cloves
- Get small ginger piece
- Get Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Prepare Butter (unsalted)
- Make ready chasew nuts (non roasted)
- Take salt
- Prepare make sure to check step
- Take For Cooking Gravy:
- Take Chopped ginger
- Take chopped green chillies
- Take Salt as per requirement
- Make ready Kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder)
- Take Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Get sugar
- Make ready 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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