Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Butter chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Butter chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken using 22 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Butter chicken:
- Make ready 1/2 cup Yogurt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Red chili
- Get 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
- Take 1/2 tsp Cumin powder
- Get 1 tsp Salt or to taste
- Get 1/2 kg Chicken boneless
- Make ready 1-2 tbs Lemon juice
- Make ready Oil for shallow frying
- Prepare Butter gravy
- Take 2-3 tbs Butter
- Make ready 1 tsp Oil
- Prepare 2 Bay leaf
- Make ready 1 large Onion sliced
- Take 1 tbs Ginger garlic paste
- Prepare 25 gms Cashew nuts (Optional)
- Prepare 3-4 Tomatoes chopped
- Take 2 tbs Tomato paste (Optional)
- Get ½ tsp Salt or to taste
- Prepare 2-3 tbs Cream
- Prepare 1 tsp Fenugreek leaves dried
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Whole spice powder
- Get 1-2 tbs Coriander (chopped)
Instructions to make Butter chicken:
- In a bowl add yogurt, red chili powder,coriander powder,cumin and salt, mix well.
- Add boneless chicken and lemon juice, mix well and marinate for 30 minutes.
- In a wok, add butter and oil (oil is added so that butter doesn’t get burned) heat it, add bay leaves and onion and sauté until onion are translucent.
- Add ginger and garlic paste and sauté for a minute.
- Add cashew nuts, tomatoes (chopped) and tomato paste (it is optional and added to enhance color) mix well. Cover and cook until tomatoes are cooked well.
- For chicken, take out marinated chicken and add it in skewers.
- Remove bay leaves from tomato gravy, add salt and mix well.
- Add tomato gravy in a blender/chopper and blend until it makes a fine puree. You can add water to make it fine. - - Now take sieve and strain puree. Strain very well.
- Now bring wok on the stove with gravy. Bring it to boil and add water if gravy is thick. - - Add cream and mix well.
- Add fenugreek dried leaves, whole spice powder and coriander (chopped).Let it simmer for 2 minutes. Butter gravy is ready.
- Shallow fry chicken skewers on medium low flame until done. - - Serve skewer with the butter gravy or add chicken to the gravy and mix well, garnish with cream and fenugreek leaves and serve.
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