Recipe: Yummy Butter Less - Butter Chicken

Butter Less - Butter Chicken. Butter chicken cooked with oil for people who do not like butter. Reduce heat to low and stir in the cumin, garam masala, brown sugar, chilli flakes and turmeric. Cut the chicken into pieces and add to the pan.

For this butter chicken recipe, Keith breaks down the recipe and explains each step and why each ingredient is included in the recipe. My family loved this less butter chicken recipe as much as the full fat version. The chicken is spicy, but not too spicy and smells wonderful as it simmers on the stove. You can have Butter Less - Butter Chicken using 29 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butter Less - Butter Chicken

1. It's of For the chicken.
2. It's 500 gms of Chicken Thighs (Skinless Boneless - Cut into bite size pieces and marinated in the spices mentioned below.).
3. You need of (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. You need 1 Tbsp of Ginger Paste.
5. It's 1 Tbsp of Garlic Paste.
6. You need 1 Tbsp of Besan or Chickpea Flour.
7. It's 1 Tbsp of Coriander Powder.
8. It's 1 Tbsp of Cumin Powder.
9. Prepare 1 Tsp of Chilli Powder.
10. You need 1 Tsp of Paprika or Kashmiri Chilli Powder for the Colour.
11. It's 1 Tsp of Punjabi Garam Masala.
12. Prepare 1 Tsp of Turmuric Powder.
13. It's to taste of Salt.
14. You need of For the Gravy.
15. Prepare 6 of Medium Tomatoes.
16. It's 2 of Medium Onions.
17. Prepare 6 of Garlic Cloves.
18. It's 1 Tbsp of Poppy Seeds.
19. You need 20 of Almonds.
20. You need 4 of Cloves.
21. It's 1 of Big Elaichi.
22. You need 4 of Small Elaichi.
23. It's 1 inch of Cinnamon Stick.
24. You need 1 of Bay leaf.
25. It's 1 Tbsp of Tomato Ketchup.
26. It's 1 tbsp of Brown sugar.
27. You need 1 Tbsp of Kasuri Methi.
28. You need 1/2 Tsp of Garam Masala.
29. You need to taste of Salt.

Delicious restaurant-style butter chicken made right at home with simple ingredients. This recipe is exactly how they make butter chicken in restaurants — and I've had Finger-Lickin' butter chicken! That's a little too much fun to say. Doin' a little throwback Monday right here with some Indian food.

Butter Less - Butter Chicken instructions

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..

Butter chicken is prepared with marinated chicken that's first grilled and then served in a rich gravy (a.k.a. curry) made with tomato, butter, and a special Little did he know that this dish would become their best seller and put them on the map. Now the recipe is adapted by restaurants across the world. Butter Chicken is one of my top five favorite Indian recipes. Once you open the Instant Pot, the rice will be Let the sauce cool just a little before adding the butter and the cream. Adding it to the boiling sauce will make your sauce very thin.