Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Butter Chicken

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Butter Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Butter Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter chicken using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:

1. Make ready 1 chicken breast (cut in cubes)
2. Take 2 big tomato roughly chopped
3. Prepare 1 small onion roughly chopped
4. Make ready 2-3 garlic cloves
5. Get 1/2 inch ginger
6. Get 1 big cardamom
7. Prepare 1 small cardamom
8. Get 3-4 cloves
9. Prepare 1 bay leaf
10. Take 6-7 cashew nuts
11. Get 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
12. Prepare to taste Salt
13. Take 1 tbsp sugar
14. Take 1 tsp kasuri methi
15. Prepare 2 tbsp butter
16. Take 1 green chilli slit
17. Get 3-4 tbsp fresh cream
18. Take 1 cup water
19. Get Marination
20. Get 3-4 tbsp hung yoghurt
21. Prepare to taste Salt
22. Take 2 tbsp oil
23. Take 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
24. Prepare 1 fresh lime juice
25. Get 1 tsp ginger garlic paste

Steps to make Butter Chicken:

1. First marination : Take chicken in a bowl add salt to taste and ginger garlic paste. Mix and keep aside for 10 mins.
2. Second marination : In another bowl take oil, add kashmiri red chilli powder and mix. Next add hung yoghurt, little salt if required, fresh lime juice and mix well.
3. Add chicken cubes marinated in step one into second marination. Keep it aside for 10-15.
4. In a pan take 1 cup water, add tomatoes, onion, ginger, garlic, small and big cardamom, bay leaf, cloves, cashew nuts and kashmiri red chilli powder. Cover in let it cook for 7-10 mins or till the tomatoes are mushy. Keep stirring in between.
5. After the above pan mix is cool, remove small and big cardamom, cloves and bay leaf out from it.
6. Next make the puree of the remaining things above and strain the puree to get smooth texture.
7. In the other pan heat 2 tbsp butter add the slit green chilli, add the strained puree and cook for 3-4 mins.
8. Add salt as per taste and 1 tbsp sugar and mix. Let it cook for few mins. Keep it aside.
9. Heat a non-stick pan put 1 tbsp oil and add marinated chicken. Cook for 7-10 mins or untill done. Keep flipping the sides to cook all sides.
10. Add the chicken pieces to the gravy and cook again on the low flame.
11. Add kasuri methi and fresh cream. Mix well. Check salt and sugar at this stage. Cook for another 2 minutes.
12. Garnish with some butter and fresh cream. Serve hot with Roti or rice.

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