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Indian Butter Chicken

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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine North Indian
Servings 3 people

Ingredients
  

For Marination:

  • 500 g Chicken
  • 1 Cup Yogurt
  • 1 tbsp Ginger garlic crushed
  • 1 tsp Turmeric
  • 1 tsp Red Chilli powder
  • 1 tsp Coriander powder
  • 1 tsp Garam masala
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • As reqd Salt

For Preparing Sauce:

  • 2 tbsp Butter/ghee
  • 1 no. Onion Chopped
  • 1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
  • 3 nos. Tomato puree
  • 1 tsp Coriander powder
  • 1 tsp Red chilli powder
  • 10 nos Cashew nuts
  • ¼ cup Milk
  • Salt As reqd
  • 2 tbsp Chopped coriander leaves
  • 2 tbsp Thick cream

Instructions
 

  • Soak cashews in milk for 30 min.
  • Grind cashews adding enough milk to get a fine paste. Keep aside.
  • Wash and pat dry chicken and cut into bite sized pieces. Marinate the chicken pieces with the ingredients under marination or at least 30 minutes to 1 hour.
  • Heat 2 tbsp of butter/ghee in a pan.
  • Add chopped onions and ginger-garlic paste and fry till onion is golden brown.
  • Add chicken and saute for a while.
  • Add tomato puree, chilli powder, coriander powder, required salt and cook for a while.
  • Add cashew paste along with milk.
  • Cover the vessel with a lid and cook till gravy thickens and chicken is done.
  • Top with some butter or thick cream and remove from flame.
  • Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
  • :- Serve hot Indian Butter Chicken with Roti or Nan.

Notes

You can visit this link Cashew Chicken Curry. You can also visit this link Varutharacha Chicken Curry.
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