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Main dishes · India

Butter chicken

Yoghurt-marinated chicken, roasted, in a tomato and cream sauce finished with fenugreek.

◷ 70 minutes♧ 4 servingsSave as cookbook PDF ↓
Butter chicken

Ingredients

For 4 servings · tick what is ready

Use the scaled ingredient list. Steps and temperatures stay unchanged; use a larger pan or dish if needed. Seasonings to taste stay to taste.

LET’S COOK

How to make it

01

Mix the yoghurt with half the ginger, garlic and spices, season it and marinate the chicken for at least an hour, better overnight.

02

Roast the chicken at 220 °C for twenty minutes, or sear it in a screaming-hot pan until it takes dark scorch marks. It can stay slightly underdone inside — the sauce will finish it.

03

Melt the butter and fry the onion with the rest of the ginger and garlic until golden. Add the tomatoes and the spices and cook for fifteen minutes.

04

Blend the sauce with the soaked cashews until completely smooth and return it to the pan. It is the cashews, not flour, that give the sauce its body.

05

Return the chicken to the sauce, pour in the cream and warm it through for five minutes without letting it boil. Crush the kasuri methi between your palms, stir it in and take the pan off.

About this recipe

By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Yuvraj Singh 97 · CC BY-SA 4.0