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How to Make Easy butter chicken
Preparation time:
less than 30 mins
Cooking time:
10 to 30 mins
Serves:
Serves 2
Ingredients
- 3–4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- 6 green cardamom
- pinch dried fenugreek
For the marinade
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp sunflower oil
- 1 tsp garam masala
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp flaked sea salt
- ¼ dried flaked chillies
For the sauce
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 garlic
- 15g/½oz fresh root ginger
- ½ tsp garam masala
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- 1 tsp dried fenugreek
- pinch dried chilli
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 1½ tbsp tomato purée
- 100ml/3½fl oz double cream
- pinch flaked sea salt
Method
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Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7. Mix together the marinade ingredients in a small ovenproof dish, ideally cast iron, or a small roasting tin. Add the chicken and coat thoroughly in the marinade. Roast for 10 minutes.
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While the chicken is cooking, make the sauce. Heat the sunflower oil in a medium non-stick frying pan and cook the garlic and ginger over a low heat for 1–2 minutes, or until softened but not coloured, stirring constantly. Add the garam masala, cumin, coriander and turmeric and cook for 30 seconds, stirring.
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Sprinkle over the fenugreek and chilli flakes and cook for a few seconds more, then add the caster sugar and tomato purée. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Add 6 tablespoons cold water and the cream and bring to a simmer. Season with salt, to taste.
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Take the chicken out of the oven and stir in the creamy sauce. Return to the oven for a further 10 minutes, or until the chicken is tender and the sauce is bubbling.
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Just before the chicken is done, roughly bash the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and remove the husks. Grind the seeds to a powder. Sprinkle the ground cardamom and remaining fenugreek over the butter chicken just before serving.
