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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Butter chicken (Chicken Makhni)




Ingredients:
  • 100 grams: Butter
  • 4 pieces: Cashewnuts
  • Few: coriander leaves
  • 1 tbsp: Coriander powder
  • 1/2 tsp: Cumin seeds
  • 100 ml: Fresh cream
  • 2 tsp: Ginger garlic paste
  • 2 slice: Green chillies
  • 2 tbsp: Cooking oil
  • 1 number: Onion
  • 500 grams: Boneless chicken slices
  • 2 tsp: Red chilli powder (put more - as per your taste)
  • 1 tsp: Salt (put more - as per your taste)
  • 1/2 tsp: Sugar
  • 200 grams: Tomato
  • 1 tsp: Garam masala
  • 1/2 tsp: Crushed fenugreek leaves (qasoori methi)


Directions:

Cut chicken into thin cube slices and apply ginger garlic paste, salt, chilli-powder (1 tsp), garam masala and leave it for about 30 minutes. Then shallow fry in oil and set aside.

To the leftover oil add cumin seeds, onion, ginger garlic paste, tomatoes, cashew, fenugreek leaves, green chilli, chilli-powder (1 tsp) and other spices.

Then add tomatoes and cook covered with little water on a slow heat till everything is mashed up.

Let the mixture get cool for some time then put it in a blender. Dont put very hot mixture in to the blender right away and swith it on because in this case you may burn yourself.

Then add this mixture to hot melted butter and cook on a medium flame. Add fesh cream in it. Add chicken and cook for few more minutes. Finally, decorate it with fresh corriander and little bit of garam masala to it and enjoy !!!