How to Make Speedy Butter Chicken

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Butter Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter chicken using 35 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:

1. Take For Chicken Tikka Marination:(Part 1)
2. Get 300 g Skinless and Boneless chicken cubes
3. Prepare Salt as per requirement
4. Prepare 1 tbs lemon juice
5. Take 1 1/2 tbs Ginger-Garlic paste
6. Take For Chicken Tikka Marination: (Part 2)
7. Prepare 5 tbs oil
8. Get 1 1/2 tbs Kashmiri Red chilli powder
9. Get 1/2 cup Hung Yoghurt (yoghurt with no water)
10. Take Salt as per requirement
11. Make ready 1 tbs lemon juice
12. Make ready For Butter Chicken Gravy:
13. Take 1 cup water
14. Make ready 1 tomato (medium)
15. Prepare 1 small roughly chopped Onion
16. Get 2 bay leaves
17. Prepare 1 small cinamon Stick
18. Make ready 2-3 Cloves
19. Prepare 2 small green cardamom
20. Prepare 3 garlic cloves
21. Get 1 small ginger piece
22. Take 1 tbs Kashmiri red chilli powder
23. Take 150 g Butter (unsalted)
24. Get 5 chasew nuts (non roasted)
25. Prepare salt
26. Prepare 6 make sure to check step
27. Make ready For Cooking Gravy:
28. Get 1 tsp Chopped ginger
29. Prepare 1 tsp chopped green chillies
30. Take Salt as per requirement
31. Make ready Kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder)
32. Make ready 1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
33. Prepare 1 tbs sugar
34. Make ready Half cup thick heavy cream
35. Get Chopped Green onion/coriander leaves for garnish

Instructions to make Butter Chicken:

1. Firstly, Marinate the Chicken in a bowl by adding salt, lemon juice and ginger garlic paste and set aside for 15 - 20 minutes.
2. While the First step of chicken marination is done, keep aside and Take a cooking pot And add Water, rougly chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, bay leaves, cinamon, cloves, green cardamom, ginger and garlic, kashmiri red chilli powder, salt and quarter of 150g butter. Let it cook till tomato gets mashy. Off the stove and let it get warm.
3. Take a bowl, first add oil and then add the Kashmiri red chilli powder. Mix it well, since the proper colour of the chilli powder will be shown through oil. After, add the hung yoghurt and whisk it well. Add salt and lemon juice. Whisk it nicely.
4. Once the First Step of Chicken Marination completes 15-20 minutes, take each chicken pieces squeeze it to remove excess water and add it in the bowl of Marination part 2. Do it one by one. Mix it well and set aside for 15-20 minutes.
5. Take the cooked tomato gravy and blend it into fine paste. And after blending, strain the gravy to remove the tomato skin or spices if any. Because we need a fine smooth paste.
6. Heat stove, and add the rest buttet into the cooking pot. Add chopped ginger and green chillies, just lightly saute.
7. Add the blended puree and let it cook for 5 to 8 minutes.
8. While the puree is cooking. Heat a grilling pan or any normal pan (Make sure its a nonstick pan). Add 1 tbs of oil. The pan should be hot enough with medium high flame, so that the chicken doesn't leave any water and then shallow fry it. Don't flip the chicken unless one side is completely done and has burn marks. Do it till the chicken is cooked.
9. Check the cooking gravy in mean time. Add salt if needed, kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder), sugar and Chicken. Cook for 5 minutes.
10. Finally add the thick heavy cream and mix it. Garnish with chopped green onion/coriander leaves. Serve with chapati or Naan.

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