Butter Chicken (curry)
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Ingredients
- 2 diced chicken breasts
- 4 tbsp natural yogurt
- 300g salted butter
- dash double cream (if easily available)
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp chilli powder
- 2 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1 cove of garlic
- 2 tsp ground cardamon
- few bay leaves
- 1 tbsp Garam masala powder
- pinch salt
- 2 finely chopped onions
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Description
This is a very mild but tasty curry ideal for kids or people looking for a more exciting alternative to chicken korma.
Method
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1. Mix all the spices together in a bowl and add the tomato paste, yogurt and cream (if there is no cream in the fridge a teaspoon of corn flour will do the same job). leave the bay leaves to the side for the time being.
2. Add the chicken to the spice mixture making sure it is coated thoroughly.
3. In a high sided frying pan or medium sized saucepan on medium heat melt the butter and add the oil and finely chopped onions. pluck only the marinaded chicken from the bowl and seal in the pan.
4. Once the chicken is lightly browned scrape the rest of the spice mixture into the pan and add 1 cup of water along with the bay leaves.
5. cover the mixture and allow to simmer on medium heat for 25-30 minutes.
6. Serve over the rice of your choice (a saffron rice makes a good accompaniment) and/or naan bread.
7. This recipe should happily serve 2 people so adjust the measurements to suit more or less.
Chef's Tips
As always a good quality Garam Masala gives any curry the edge, masala in a jar pales in comparison to a fresh one from a spice shop.
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It looks delicious
I made this and agree with all the other comments there is too much butter in the ingredients list. As suggested by above, I think it's a typo and should be 30g not 300g, I too had to drain off quite a lot of butter midway through cooking as it was like boiling the ingredients in a vat of fat!
Don't let this stop you making this recipe though. What I really liked about it was that it's a quick recipe but still tastes really good with some lovely flavours. Am going to make it again today!
Just about to try. No mention of oil in ingredients. How much reqired?
Have now tried but found far too much butter in recipe.Had to pour surplus off to save meal. I have a similar recipe in an Indian cook book and that uses 45g of butter to 1Kg.chicken.Should this be 30g of butter not 300g.
350grms of butter seemed rather high, so i used less, also 2 teaspoons of chilli powder would have blown your head of, i used i teaspoon and this was still pretty hot. No way would children like this recipe because of it being so hot
350grms of butter seemed rather high, so i used less, also 2 teaspoons of chilli powder would have blown your head of, i used i teaspoon and this was still pretty hot. No way would children like this recipe because of it being so hot
Sounds good, but 300g butter! How many calories is this per portion, and how much of the dreaded FAT?
Wow this looks good - definately going to try it