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Home Made Butter Chicken

Butter chicken is one of the most popular Indian chicken recipes liked by all . Home made Butter Chicken is one of my favourite dish.
Prep Time 25 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Cuisine North Indian
Servings 5 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 kg Chicken cut into small pieces
  • 1 tsp Ginger / garlic paste
  • 3 Onion
  • 2 Tomato
  • 3 / Turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp Coriander powder
  • 1.5 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
  • 1 tsp Pepper powder
  • 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder
  • 3 Green chilli
  • 1 / Water or milk
  • 1 tbsp Cashew paste
  • 2 tbsp Fresh cream
  • 3 tbsp Butter
  • Oil for frying
  • Salt to taste

Instructions
 

  • Marinate the cleaned chicken pieces with 1 / 4 tsp of turmeric, 1 /4 tsp of pepper, 1 / 2 tsp Chilli powder and shallow fry this pieces and keep it aside.
  • Cook the onion pieces ,tomato pieces and grind it into thin paste separately.
  • Heat butter in a fry pan, add onion paste, salt, ginger, garlic paste and saute it well.
  • Add turmeric, chilli, coriander, pepper and garam masala powder and saute it well. Then add tomato puree, green chillies and saute again till the oil separates.
  • Add the fried chicken pieces, mix it well.
  • Add warm water , cover and cook it for 5 minutes.Add salt if required.
  • Finally add cashew paste, fresh cream, coriander leaves, stir well but don't boil.
  • Home made Butter Chicken is ready to serve. Serve it hot with butter naan or fried rice.

Notes

Green chilli - 3
Water or milk - 1 / 2 cup
Cashew paste - 1 tbsp
Fresh cream - 2 tbsp
Butter - 3 tbsp
Oil for frying
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves
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