Butter Chicken

Today my hubby wanted to have butter chicken with Pooris. I dont make it often coz its just that all rich and creamy and high calorie stuff. I had a big pack of chicken and its been a while since I made this version so thought it was a good idea. But then we planned to invite one of our friends to join for dinner. My friends are not a big fan of sweet style curries so I thought I should make something spicy for them. I made Pepper chicken for them. Recipe for that follows in the next post. These are recipes from the internet that I have tried many times and have always been a hit. So here is the recipe for Butter Chicken...

Serve option... 4 ppl
Serve option... Warm with pooris

This is what u'll need....

Chicken 2 lbs

GG paste 2 tbspn

Coriander powder 2.5 tspn

Red chilli powder 2.5 tspn

Cumin seeds1 tspn

Salt to taste

Onion 1 large

Tomatoes 2 medium

Green chillies 2

Cashews 6 nos

Heavy cream 1/2 cup

Sugar 1 tspn

Ketchup 2 tspn

Food color - red

Garam masala 1/2 tspn

Butter 2-3 tspn

Here is the stir....

• Cut chicken into thin slices
• Add GG paste, 1 spn chilli powder, 1.5 tspn coriander powder and salt
• Fry this in little oil till the water in the chicken evaporates. Dont cook the chicken fully through. Remove and keep it aside.
• In the same pan add cumin seeds to the remaining oil
• Toss in onion followed by gg paste and fry till onion turns golden
• Pour little water and add coriander powder, cashews, red chilli powder, green chillies and chopped tomatoes
• Boil the mixture for 15-20 mins and grind it after cooling
• Heat up a pan and add butter followed by the above mixture. Keep it a little watery
• Add sugar, salt, color and ketchup. Follow this up with cream
• Boil for couple of mins and mix in the fried chicken
• Stir and cook for another 5 mins
• Sprinkle garam masala just before you are done