Butter Less - Butter Chicken
Butter Less - Butter Chicken

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, butter less - butter chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have butter less - butter chicken using 29 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Less - Butter Chicken:
  1. Get For the chicken
  2. Prepare 500 gms Chicken Thighs (Skinless Boneless - Cut into bite size pieces and marinated in the spices mentioned below.)
  3. Get (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.)
  4. Make ready 1 Tbsp Ginger Paste
  5. Make ready 1 Tbsp Garlic Paste
  6. Get 1 Tbsp Besan or Chickpea Flour
  7. Prepare 1 Tbsp Coriander Powder
  8. Make ready 1 Tbsp Cumin Powder
  9. Make ready 1 Tsp Chilli Powder
  10. Prepare 1 Tsp Paprika or Kashmiri Chilli Powder for the Colour
  11. Take 1 Tsp Punjabi Garam Masala
  12. Take 1 Tsp Turmuric Powder
  13. Prepare to taste Salt
  14. Take For the Gravy
  15. Make ready 6 Medium Tomatoes
  16. Make ready 2 Medium Onions
  17. Take 6 Garlic Cloves
  18. Make ready 1 Tbsp Poppy Seeds
  19. Take 20 Almonds
  20. Take 4 Cloves
  21. Get 1 Big Elaichi
  22. Prepare 4 Small Elaichi
  23. Prepare 1 inch Cinnamon Stick
  24. Prepare 1 Bay leaf
  25. Take 1 Tbsp Tomato Ketchup
  26. Take 1 tbsp Brown sugar
  27. Get 1 Tbsp Kasuri Methi
  28. Take 1/2 Tsp Garam Masala
  29. Get to taste Salt
Instructions to make Butter Less - Butter Chicken:
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.)
  4. 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.
  5. Add back the chicken pieces along with the water to the tomato paste.
  6. 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.
  7. Once the chicken is cooked, add in the garam masala and sprinkle with crushed dried fenugreek leaves (kasuri methi) and mix well.
  8. 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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