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Butter Less - Butter Chicken. Cut the chicken into pieces and add to the pan. Add the chicken to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until it has lost its pinkness, then stir in the tomatoes (plus juice), evaporated milk and tomato paste. Heat oil, add onions, garlic, and ginger.

Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is a classic Indian dish that warrants more exploration by the serious home cook. It is a beautiful study in spice harmonization, and while tomatoes make up the bulk of the sauce, the flavors of toasted spice and butter predominate. So without going more into all that, here is the recipe for the perfect Butter less - Butter Chicken.

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Cut the chicken into pieces and add to the pan. Add the chicken to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until it has lost its pinkness, then stir in the tomatoes (plus juice), evaporated milk and tomato paste. Heat oil, add onions, garlic, and ginger.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter less - butter chicken using 29 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Less - Butter Chicken:

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

However you can use curry cut pieces on the bone as well. Method Heat oil in a large saucepan over low heat. Add onion and cook until soft. Add garlic, chicken, curry powder and garam masala to the saucepan.

Steps to make Butter Less - Butter Chicken:

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..

Remove from oven and slice or shred thinly. Sauté onion, in oil until it becomes soft and almost caramelized. Butter chicken originated in a Delhi restaurant when the chef was looking for a way to serve unsold tandoori chicken from the night before. He created a mild tomato curry spiced with cinnamon. Heat a large skillet or medium saucepan over medium-high heat.

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