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Butter Chicken Recipe
Butter Chicken Recipe
Ingredients:
2kg chicken
Ginger garlic paste
Salt
Red Chilli
Cumin and Coriander Powder
Garam masala
Yoghurt
Cumin seeds
Clovers
Green and Black Cardamoms
Cinnamon Stick
Green Chillies
Can of chopped tomatoes
Tomato puree paste
Single Cream
Method:
1. Scrape off fat and cut chicken into pieces (specify size?)
2. Marinate with:
6 tbsps ginger and garlic paste
4tsps salt
4tsps red chilli
3tsps cumin and coriander
2 tsps garam masala
6 tbsps yoghurt
3. Mix everything and leave overnight
4. Grill the marinated chicken pieces (unsure how long/what temperature?)
5. Add some oil to pan on high flame (optional: add a little ghee)
6. Once hot add:
2 tsps cumin seeds
8-10 clovers
7-8 green cardamoms
4 black cardamoms
1 cinnamon stick
7. Once spices have roasted for a bit add 2-2.5 tbsps each of ginger paste and
garlic paste
8. Pierce 3 green chillies and add
9. Once the paste had melded add 1 can chopped tomatoes as well as a large
table spoons worth of tomato puree
10. Add 3tsp salt, 3tsp red chilli, 2tsp cumin and coriander
11. Once this is cooked (when the oil leaves the paste) add 300ml of single
cream
12. Mix cream into paste, add chicken and some water to get the right
consistency (idk how to describe the correct consistency?), put lid on and
bring to boil.
13. Once boiling, put on low and let it simmer for 30 minutes