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Did you lot know that butter chicken has no butter inwards it? The nomenclature for this dish comes from the butter similar consistency of the sauce. The richness of the sauce is due to the presence of heavy cream inwards it. This i time to a greater extent than is i of my husband's favorites. He relishes it every fourth dimension I brand it!
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
Boneless chicken breasts : ii lbs cutting into small- medium pieces
For marination:
Ginger-garlic glue 1 tbsp
Kashmiri chilli pwd: 1 tsp
Turmeric: 1 tsp
Coriander pwd: 1 tsp
Garam masala: 1 tsp
Yogurt: 1/2 cup
Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
Salt : 1 tsp
Kasoori methi: 1 tbsp
For the sauce:
Oil: 2tbsp
Onions: ii medium chopped
Ginger-garlic paste: 1 tbsp
Tomato glue : 1 can
Green chillies: iv medium
Cashews: 6-8 ( optional)
Haldi( turmeric powder):1tsp
Coriander powder: 1tbsp
Cumin powder: 1tsp
Garam masala powder: 1 tsp
Chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
Kasoori methi ( dried fenugreek leaves): 1 tsp
Heavy cream: 1/2 cup
Cilantro leaves: 1 tbsp chopped fine
Sugar:1/2 tsp
Salt: to taste
Method:
The chicken:
Clean the chicken pieces too marinate it amongst all the ingredients nether 'for marination'. Mix good too continue it inwards the refrigerator for at to the lowest degree ii hours. Line a baking tray amongst foil, house the chicken pieces on it inwards unmarried layer too bake for 30mins at 350 degrees inwards the oven turning i time inwards between.Alternatively, you lot tin move too develop the chicken until done,on the grill.
The sauce:
Soak the cashew nuts inwards H2O for at to the lowest degree ii hours.Then grind it to a glue amongst greenish chillies.
In a sauté pan/ wok estrus 1/2 tbsp crude oil too sauté chopped onion until it begins to modify color. Switch off the flaming too allow it cool. Once cooled, position it inwards a blender too brand onion paste.
Heat the wok/ sauté pan again, add together remaining oil. Keep the flaming on low.Add ginger-garlic glue too sauté it for 1minute. Now add together the onion glue to it too sauté until it turns a piffling golden brown. Add the love apple tree glue too sauté until it begins to piece of employment out oil. Now add together the haldi powder, coraiander too cumin powders too sauté for xxx seconds. Add blood-red chilli pulverization too garam masala too sauté for roughly other xx seconds. Now add together the cashew-green chilli mixture too mix well. Add 1/2 loving cup H2O to sparse the sauce. Let it simmer. Add Kasoori methi, common salt too pinch of refined saccharify too mix well.
Putting it together:
To the to a higher house sauce, add together the baked/ grilled chicken amongst the juices left during baking. Add the 1/2 loving cup heavy cream, allow it simmer for ii mins.
Garnish amongst cilantro leaves.
Serve hot amongst patently rice/ jeera/ rice/ peas-carrot pulao or only amongst roughly sort of roti/naan/bread.
Cooking made easy:
Sauce tin move hold upward made ahead of fourth dimension too kept inwards the fridge. Marinated chicken tin move hold upward kept inwards the freezer. When needed, bake/grill the chicken too only estrus the sauce too mix it in.
Tip for good for you lot living:
Every repast should hold upward a balanced repast amongst one-half of the plate beingness fruits too vegetables, piece the other one-half is proteins too carbohydrates. This volition ensure that you lot larn all the required daily nutrients too volition receive got no postulate to accept dietary supplements.
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Food for thought:
Be who you lot are too tell what you lot feel, because those who heed don't matter, too those who affair don't mind.(Bernard M. Baruch)