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Hi Folks,

Being an Indian, I love butter chicken! It's one of my comfort foods.

Do you too have a craving for some butter chicken? Instead of ordering in, why not make it yourself? No, it's not as complicated as you think :).

Here's an easy recipe, made with minimal ingredients, that will produce a lip-smacking butter chicken that's healthy and light on the stomach too.

Don't believe me? Take a look.

Home-made Butter Chicken

Ingredients

Chicken: 400 gms. (boneless, medium-to-small sized pieces, or normal chicken with bone, preferably breast pieces, cut in fairly small sizes)

For Marination: 

Curd: 3/4 cup

Lemon juice: 1 teaspoon

Ginger-garlic paste: 1 tablespoon

Dhaniya/coriander powder, Jeera/cumin powder, Kashmiri Mirch/Red chilli powder: 1/2 teaspoon each

Salt: 1 teaspoon

Mix all the ingredients with the chicken, cover and leave it to marinade for at least an hour or two hours.


For the Preparation:

Onions: 2 Large (grated)

Tomato: 1 Large (chopped into small pieces) or 2-3 tablespoons Tomato Puree

Kasoori Methi (Dried Methi) Leaves: 1 tablespoon or 2 teaspoons, crushed

Unsalted Butter: 1 teaspoon

Vegetable Oil:: 2 tablespoons

Fresh Cream: 1/2 Cup

Salt to taste

1-2 Sprigs Coriander leaves to garnish

Optional: 1 teaspoon roasted and powdered jeera

Method:

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in kadhai, and fry the marinaded chicken pieces for a minute on low heat. Remove pieces from oil, and keep with the rest of the marinade.

In a large pan or kadhai, heat 1 tablespoon oil, and fry the grated onion paste. Add the butter and mix well. When the onion paste is light brown, add chopped tomatoes, and saute for two minutes.

When the paste is mushy, add the fried chicken pieces with the rest of the marinade. Add the kasuri methi, and saute for five to ten minutes.

Keep stirring so that the mixture doesn't stick to the sides of the pan or kadhai. Season with salt to taste. Add half cup water, and cover with lid. Simmer for ten minutes, or till chicken is soft.

Remove the lid, and check gravy for taste and softness of chicken pieces.You can add half a teaspoon of butter to the finished gravy if you want more richness.

Now add fresh cream to the gravy, and simmer for another two minutes.

Remove from heat, and garnish with coriander leaves and roasted and powdered jeera (optional).


That's it! Easy, isn't it? No fancy ingredients, no difficult techniques. Cooking is over in 30 minutes, max.

Try it, I am sure your family will lick their fingers! :)

Do share your feedback with me.