Butter Chicken Recipe:
Ingredients for chicken marination:
1. Boneless chicken -600gms
2. yogurt -2 tbsp
3. Lemon juice -1tbsp
4. kashmiri chilli -1 tbsp
5. ginger garlic paste- 1 tbsp
6. garam masala -1tsp
Ingredients for making gravy :
7. Tomato -4 nos
8. Onion -half slice
9. Green Chilli -1
10. Bay leaf -1
11. cinnamon powder -1 tsp (or small piece cinnamon stick)
12. cardamom -5 nos
13. ginger -small piece
14. garlic -2 cloves
15. cashews -10 nos
16. kashmiri chilli -1 tbsp
17. Butter -1 tbsp
Other ingredients :
18. Water - 1/2 cup
19.kasuri methi - 1 tbsp
20.Fresh cream -3 to 4 tbsp
Method of preparation.
1. In a bowl add ingredients 1-6 and mix well.Marinate for 20 -30 mins.
2. In a pan add 4 tbsp of vegetable oil and once hot enough shallow fry the marinated chicken pieces in batches.Do not over fry the chicken.
3.To the same oil add ingredients from 7 - 17 .Stir well.Close the lid and cook for 5 mins.Once the mixture cools down grind it to a paste.
4.To a pan add 1 tbsp of butter and add the ground paste along with 1 /2 cup of water.Add 2 tsp of sugar , salt as required , 1 tbsp of kasuri methi and fried chicken.stir well .close the lid and cook for 5-8 mins.Add 3 tbsp of fresh cream.
Add 1 tbsp of fresh cream on top while serving.
(Note:If using salted butter,please check salt before adding extra)
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