One of the best Butter Chicken Recipe by Food Fusion

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BUTTER CHICKEN RECIPE IN ENGLISH

Ingredients:

CHICKEN PREP:
• Chicken boneless ½ kg
• Dahi (yogurt) ½ cup
• Namak (salt) 1 tsp or to taste
• Dhania pissa hua (coriander powder) ½ tsp
• Zeera pissa hua (cumin powder) ½ tsp
• Lal mirch (red chili) ½ tsp
• Lemon juice 1-2 tbs
• Oil

BUTTER GRAVY
• Makhan (butter) 2-3 tbs
• Oil 1 tsp
• Tez paat (bay leaf) 2
• Pyaaz (onion) sliced 1 large
• Adrak (ginger paste) ½ tbs
• Lehsan (garlic) paste ½ tbs
• Tamatar (tomatoes) chopped 3-4
• Tomato paste 2 tbs (Optional)
• Kaju (cashew nuts) 25 gms (Optional)
• Namak (salt) ½ tsp or to taste
• Cream 2-3 tbs
• Fenugreek leaves dried 1 tsp
• Garam masala ½ tsp

Directions:
• In a bowl add yogurt, salt, cumin and coriander powder, red chili powder and mix well. Add boneless chicken and mix well. Add lemon juice, mix and marinate for 30 minutes.
• In a wok, add butter and 1 tsp oil (oil is added so that butter doesn’t get burned) heat and add bay leaves and saute, add onion and saute until onion are translucent. Add ginger and garlic paste and saute for a min. Add tomatoes chopped and tomato paste (it is optional and added to enhance color) cook well for few minutes and add cashew nuts. Cook until tomatoes are cooked well.
• Add tomato gravy in a blender/chopper and puree well. Blend until it makes a fine puree. You can add water to make it fine.
• Now take sieve and strain puree. Strain very well. Now bring wok on the stove with gravy and add salt. Bring it to boil and add water if gravy is thick.
• Add cream mix well, add fenugreek dried leaves and garam masala. Let it simmer for 2 minutes. Butter gravy is ready.
• For chicken, take out marinated chicken and add it in skewers. Shallow fry chicken skewers on medium low flame until done. Serve skewer with the butter gravy. Or add chicken to the gravy and mix well, garnish with cream and fenugreek leaves and serve.
• If you don’t want to add chicken on skewers, directly shallow fry the chicken and add to the gravy.
• If using skewers, give coal dum for added aroma and enjoy.

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