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Butter Chicken - Delicious

Butter Chicken- I have tried several recipes for this, but this is the one which was easier and the dish came out tasty too, my family and friends just loved
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine North Indian
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb Boneless chicken cut in small pieces
  • 2 nos Onion cut into cubes, small
  • 1 tbsp Ginger paste
  • 1 tbsp Garlic paste
  • 1 tsp Chilli powder
  • 1 tsp Coriander powder optional
  • 1 tsp Pepper powder
  • 3 nos Tomatoes ripe and red
  • Oil for frying chicken
  • 3 - Butter
  • 1 tbsp Tomato ketchup
  • Fresh cream or Half and half
  • Salt As reqd
  • Sugar A pinch
  • Kasuri methi(crushed) A hand ful, Dried fenugreek leaves
  • 15 cashew nut broken into small pieces

Instructions
 

  • Marinate chicken pieces with salt, 1/2 tbsp of ginger-garlic paste, chilli powder,coriander powder and pepper powder.
  • Shallow fry until golden brown.
  • In the same kadai, saute onion, ginger-garlic paste and green chillies.
  • When onions turn golden brown, add crushed kasuri methi, salt, tomatoes and cashew nut.
  • Saute for 3 - 4 minutes.
  • Add enough water and cook covered.
  • When tomatoes are well cooked, transfer to a blender and grind until the mixture is smooth.
  • :- Please make sure the mix has cooled before you transfer to blender.
  • Heat up a kadai.
  • Add butter followed by the blended mixture and the chicken pieces.
  • Let it simmer so that the chicken pieces absorb the sauce and will be realy juicy.
  • Add cream, food color (red),tomato ketchup and sugar for balancing the taste.
  • :- Do not add more tomatoes to get the colour because it will not give the red color and will be more sour.
  • :- Goes well with hot naan, chappathi, roti, or even ghee rice.
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