Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken is a very popular dish all over the world and I have had it so often that I found it monotonus and boring. 

Last year, when I visited my aunt in India, she served me some butter chicken for dinner. Well, I was pleasantly surprised, it was by far the best butter chicken I have ever tasted. And so, after several attempts and failures at replicating that butter chicken recipe, I just had to find that secret ingredient.. (psst!.. Its ketch up!). It is now my favorite dish and I would like to share that recipe with you.

Ingredients

- 6 filet chicken breasts cut into cubes
- 200g butter
- 1 medium sized chopped onion
-  2 tsp cashew nut paste(or 7-10 cashew nuts crushed)
- 1 tin peeled tomatoes(200g)
- 2 tsp salt
- ½ tsp garam masala
- 2 tsp ginger & garlic
- ½ tsp sugar
- 1 tsp cumin powder(or seeds)
- 1/4 tsp fenugreek powder(or leaves crushed)
- 2 green chillies
- 1/2tsp chilli powder
- 1tsp coriander powder
- 1tsp garam masala powder
- 2tsp tomato ketchup(optional)
- 3 strands of coriander leaves
- 250ml fresh cream
- 1cup water 

Method
 

- Wash the Chicken cubes and marinate it with 1/2 tsp chilli powder, 1/2tsp coriander powder, 1tsp of ginger and garlic paste and 1/2tsp salt. Leave for 5-10mins.

-  Heat a little oil n butter in a pot and semi-fry the chicken cubes. once done, separate the chicken cubes into another bowl. In the same cooking pan (with all the stock juice of the semi-fried chicken and butter) add cumin seeds,chopped onions, ginger-garlic paste and stir in 1/2 cup water.

- To this mixture add 1/2tsp corriander powder, fenugreek powder, garam masala powder, green chilli, cashew nut paste, coriander leaves and tomato puree. Stir in all this ingredients, cover with lid and slow cook it for 10-15mins...until the tomatoes are well cooked.

- Cool the mixture and then blend it in using a blender into a smooth paste texture.

- Heat some butter and oil in cooking pot. Add the blended curry paste. Add tsp salt and stir it in well. Add 1/4cup water to make the mixture thinner. Add chicken and cook till chicken is well done( 30-40mins).
Stir occasionally.

- Add 2 drops of red/orange coloring(optional). Add sugar. Add tomato ketchup (optional). Add fresh cream. Stir well. Garnish with coriander leaves.

- Serve along with some Chapathi or Parotta bread.

Enjoy!