Recipes - Butter Chicken
- Jovita D'Souza
- Mangalore/Kuwait
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken cut into pieces
Puree of 2 tomatoes (without skin)
2 onions chopped
1 tbsp. ginger-garlic paste
Paste of 15 cashew nuts
1½ tbsp. butter
3 tbsp. cream
1 tsp. chilly powder
2 –3 tbsp. oil
For Marinating;
1 tbsp. tandoori masala
½ tbsp. garam masala (cloves, cinnamon and cardamom powdered)
2 tbsp. lime juice
½ tsp. cumin powder (jeera)
5 tbsp. yoghurt
Salt according to taste
Method:
Marinate the chicken for 2 hours in the above mentioned .
Heat oil in a non-stick pan and fry the chicken for 10 minutes. Remove the chicken and keep aside. In the remaining oil fry the chopped onions till golden, then add the ginger-garlic paste and fry sprinkling little water now and then till oil separates. Add the cashew paste, chilly powder, tomato puree and cook for 10 minutes. Lastly, add the butter and the cream and the chicken. Mix well and cook till done.
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