Hi, I am Laura. Today, we’re going to prepare butter chicken recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a very simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I will make it a little bit more unique. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Butter Chicken Recipe
Butter Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Butter Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken using 25 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Make ready For the chicken marinade
- Get 800 g boneless and skinless chicken cut into bit sized pieces
- Prepare 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- Prepare 1 1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
- Get 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- Get 2 teaspoons garam masala
- Get 1 teaspoon turmeric
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Get 1 teaspoon mild chilli powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Get For the Sauce
- Make ready 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Get 1 tablespoon butter + 1 tablespoon oil)
- Make ready 1 large onion, sliced or chopped
- Prepare 1 tablespoon ginger, minced
- Take 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons garam masala
- Get 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- Take 400 g plum tomatoes
- Make ready 2 tablespoons tomato puree
- Get 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (or to taste)
- Get 1 cup single/double cream
- Take 1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions 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, sausage basmati rice.
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