Butter chicken
Preparing chicken tikka:
- Chicken: 1/2kg(boneless Chicken breasts cut into cubes)
- Thick Yogurt: 1/2 cup
- lemon juice: 1tbsp
- tandoori masala/ tikka masala: 1tbsp
- Ginger paste: 1tbsp
- Garlic paste: 1/2tbsp
- Red chilli powder : 1 tsp
- Cumin powder: 1tsp
- Garam masala powder: 1tsp
- Butter or ghee : 1tbsp
Wash the chicken and drain all water.
Mix all the above ingredients and marinate chicken for 4 hours or preferably overnight.
Heat a pan and add chicken pieces with the marinated masala into the pan.
Then cook on high flame until all water dries up and the chicken pieces become golden brown in color. Turn off the flame and set it aside.
Preparing butter gravy:
Ingredients:
- Cardamom: 4, cinnamon: 3, clove: 4, Cumin seeds: 1tsp
- tomato puree/paste: 1cup
- tomato ketchup: 2tbsp
- Ginger paste: 1tsp
- Chopped Garlic: 1tbsp
- Kashmiri Red chilli powder : 1 tsp
- Salt: 1tsp
- butter : 1/4cup
- garam masala powder : 1tsp
- honey or sugar: 1tbsp
- fresh cream: ¼ cup
- coriander leaves: 2tbsp