Easy to make creamy butter chicken

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Published Sep 20, 2017

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Serves 6

Ingredients:

60g butter/margarine

15ml oil

1kg chicken fillet, cut into cubes or deboned cubes thigh pieces. In this instance I used chicken with bones

2 medium onions, finely chopped

20ml garam masala

20ml ground coriander

30ml garlic and ginger paste

20ml chilli powder

5ml salt

3 cardamom pods

5 black peppercorns

150ml natural yoghurt

30ml tomato purée

150ml milk water - half water, half milk

2 bay leaves

10ml cornflour / maizena (optional)

200ml fresh cream or coconut cream

Method:

Heat butter and oil in a pot. Sear the chicken pieces until they are brown. Remove from pot.

Fry onions until they are golden and soft.

In a separate bowl, blend together all the spices, yoghurt and tomato purée.

Add this to the onions.

Add the milk and bay leaves and leave to simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, then add the chicken.

Turn the chicken pieces over and simmer for 15 minutes.

Mix the flour with the cream and add to chicken.

Cook for a further 10-15 minutes.

Garnish with fresh coriander.

© Cape Malay Cooking

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