Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, butter less - butter chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Butter Less - Butter Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Butter Less - Butter Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter less - butter chicken using 29 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Less - Butter Chicken:
- Make ready For the chicken
- Get 500 gms Chicken Thighs (Skinless Boneless - Cut into bite size pieces and marinated in the spices mentioned below.)
- Make ready (Do not use breast pieces. However you can use curry cut pieces on the bone as well. Just follow the tips section on how to cook it a beat differently.)
- Take 1 Tbsp Ginger Paste
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Garlic Paste
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Besan or Chickpea Flour
- Get 1 Tbsp Coriander Powder
- Take 1 Tbsp Cumin Powder
- Prepare 1 Tsp Chilli Powder
- Take 1 Tsp Paprika or Kashmiri Chilli Powder for the Colour
- Get 1 Tsp Punjabi Garam Masala
- Get 1 Tsp Turmuric Powder
- Take to taste Salt
- Get For the Gravy
- Get 6 Medium Tomatoes
- Prepare 2 Medium Onions
- Prepare 6 Garlic Cloves
- Take 1 Tbsp Poppy Seeds
- Take 20 Almonds
- Get 4 Cloves
- Prepare 1 Big Elaichi
- Prepare 4 Small Elaichi
- Make ready 1 inch Cinnamon Stick
- Make ready 1 Bay leaf
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Tomato Ketchup
- Get 1 tbsp Brown sugar
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Kasuri Methi
- Prepare 1/2 Tsp Garam Masala
- Make ready to taste Salt
Instructions to make Butter Less - Butter Chicken:
- After thoroughly washing the chicken, marinate the same in the list of powders mentioned about - coriander, cumin, turmeric, chilli, paprika, garam masala, besan and ginger and garlic paste along with salt and leave aside.
- In a pressure pan, add in the roughly chopped tomatoes, onions, poppy seeds, whole spices namely cloves, cinnamon, cardamom big and small, bay leaf, garlic cloves and almonds and pressure cook for about 10 minutes -15 minutes for 2-3 whistles depending on your cooker. What w
- Remove from the pan, remove all the whole spices from the mixture and blend it into a smooth paste. Transfer back to the pan without adding any ghee or oil and let it cook with the lid on for about 10 minutes. (Only lid on here, do not use the pressure.)
- Meanwhile in another nonstick pan, saute the marinated chicken without any oil/ghee until the chicken kind of seals from the outside but is still raw inside. At this point the chicken will give out some water.
- Add back the chicken pieces along with the water to the tomato paste.
- Now add in the ketchup/ sugar and salt if required. Let the chicken cook in the gravy for about 15 minutes adding a beat of milk + water if the gravy is too thick. Check for cooking on the chicken pieces.
- Once the chicken is cooked, add in the garam masala and sprinkle with crushed dried fenugreek leaves (kasuri methi) and mix well.
- Serve with a sprinkle of coriander leaves and enjoy with hot Chapatis or Rotis or even Naan if you wish to indulge.
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