Carmen's Butter Chicken

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CarmenRuf @cook_2750430

Butter chicken (original name: Murgh Makkhani)
is an amalgamate recipe that consists of Tandoori chicken cooked in a Butter chicken
sauce. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, if you wish to
create Butter chicken from scratch, you must first
invent Tandoori chicken.

Carmen's Butter Chicken

Butter chicken (original name: Murgh Makkhani)
is an amalgamate recipe that consists of Tandoori chicken cooked in a Butter chicken
sauce. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, if you wish to
create Butter chicken from scratch, you must first
invent Tandoori chicken.

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Ingredients

2 servings
  1. 2 lbchicken breast, skinless, boneless
  2. 3 tbspTandoori Mix powder
  3. 1 mediumwhite onion, finely
  4. 2 mediumripe tomatoes, coarsely
  5. 3 clovegarlic, chopped
  6. 1 tspginger, chopped
  7. 1/2 tspcoriander powder
  8. 1/2 tspcumin powder
  9. 1/2 tspturmeric powder
  10. 1 tspGaram Masala powder
  11. 1/4 tspcardamom powder
  12. 1/4 tspcinnamon powder
  13. 3bay leaves
  14. 2 tbspFenugreek leaves
  15. 2 tbspcurry leaves
  16. 1 tspsugar
  17. 1 handfulunsalted cashew
  18. 3 tbspcanola oil
  19. to tasteSalt

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Cut chicken into small bite-sized pieces, place in large baking tray, add Tandoori Mix, mix thoroughly, cover with foil and refrigerate overnight.
    This is essentially Tandoori chicken.

  2. 2

    Once the Tandoori chicken has marinated overnight, place the baking tray (foil on) in a preheated to 350°F convection oven. Baking the chicken can take anywhere between 20 - 35 minutes depending on what kind of convection oven you have.

  3. 3

    Place a large cooking pot on a stove set to medium-high heat. Pour in canola oil, and add in onions, ginger, and garlic once the oil is hot. Cover pot with lid, stirring occasionally until the onions turn translucent.

  4. 4

    Add in coriander, cumin, turmeric, garam masala, cardamom, cinnamon, curry leaves, sugar, tomatoes, and a few pinches of salt and mix thoroughly. The tomatoes should prevent the mixture from becoming too dry, but if it does get too dry, add in some water.

  5. 5

    Stir the mixture for a few minutes, and then pour it out of the cooking pot into a blender and blend until it turns into a creamy paste. Pour the paste back into the cooking pot, keeping the pot on low heat. Use a spoon or spatula to scoop out as much of the sauce as possible from the blender. There's no need to wash the blender for now.

  6. 6

    Add the bay leaves to the cooking pot

  7. 7

    Take the Tandoori chicken from step 2, and pour it, including all the juices, into the cooking pot, and mix thoroughly

  8. 8

    Put cashew nuts into the (creamy) blender, and add 1/2 a cup of water, and a few pinches of salt. Blend until all the cashews are ground up and the mixture turns milky.

  9. 9

    Gently pour the cashew mix into the saucepan, and stir.

  10. 10

    Add in fenugreek leaves, and stir some more. Let it stand for a few hours before serving. Or better it, refrigerate overnight, and serve the next day.

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