Easy Butter Chicken Recipe For Beginners | Butter Chicken Recipe For Bachelors

butter

🥗Healthier: ghee

💰Cheaper: margarine

Ghee is a healthier fat option, while margarine is often more affordable.

cream

🥗Healthier: coconut milk

💰Cheaper: evaporated milk

Coconut milk is lower in calories and adds flavor; evaporated milk is budget-friendly.

Take a mix of boneless thigh and breast fillets and cut these into 2 inch pieces.

Marinate the pieces with salt, lemon juice, yogurt, ginger garlic paste, Kashmiri chilli powder, garam masala powder, and oil. Set aside for around 30 mins.

Peel and grate the onions.

Dry roast the kasuri methi and crush it into a powder.

Heat butter and little oil in a pan and add the grated onions. Fry on medium heat for around 7-8 mins till light brown.

Place the marinated chicken pieces side by side in the pan. Fry on medium heat for around 3 mins and then flip the pieces. Repeat for 3 mins on the other side.

Continue to fry on medium heat for around 2 mins till the chicken pieces are browned and nearly cooked.

Add the tomato purée and cook on low heat for around 2-3 mins till the tomato purée is cooked and oil separates.

Add the fresh cream and 150 ml water, mix well.

Add the garam masala powder and cook covered on low heat for around 5 mins.

Garnish with crushed kasuri methi and simmer for 2 mins.

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