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Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken
  • 4
  • 10 minutes
  • 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup Cashews
  • 800g Chicken thigh or breast
  • 1 Medium onion
  • 5 Garlic cloves
  • 30g Ginger (4m root)
  • 600g Crushed tomatoes
  • 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon garam masala
  • 1 Teaspoon ground tumeric
  • 1 Teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1 Teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 Teaspoon ground chilli powder
  • 4 Cardamon pods

Method

  1. Brown your chicken in a pot with some peanut oil, remove chicken after 10min
  2. While chicken is cooking add the cashews and 1 1/2 cups of water to a blender and blend until milk like
  3. Finely chop the onion and put in the same pot the chicken was in for 5min on a low heat
  4. Peel and grate the ginger and garlic, add to the pot and cook for 5min
  5. Remove the seeds from the cardamon pods and combine the seeds, all of the spices. and sugar in bowl - add to the pot, stir and cook for 1 minute
  6. Pour in the crushed tomatoes and simmer breifly
  7. Scrape the bottom of the pot and pour everything into a blender, blend until smooth
  8. Pour the blended curry and cashew back into the pot and add the chicken, simmer for a further 10min
  9. Serve with rice, crush some cashews, and add some coriander

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Hero

Brown your chicken in a pot with some peanut oil, remove chicken after 10min

Chicken

While chicken is cooking add the cashews and 1 1/2 cups of water to a blender and blend until milk like

Cashews

Finely chop the onion and put in the same pot the chicken was in for 5min on a low heat

Onion

Peel and grate the ginger and garlic, add to the pot and cook for 5min

Ginger Garlic

Remove the seeds from the cardamon pods and combine the seeds, all of the spices. and sugar in bowl - add to the pot, stir and cook for 1 minute

Spices

Pour in the crushed tomatoes and simmer breifly

Tomatoes

Scrape the bottom of the pot and pour everything into a blender, blend until smooth

Pour the blended curry and cashew back into the pot and add the chicken

Mixed

Serve with rice, crush some cashews, and add some coriander

Yum

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