Perfect Butter Chicken Masala

Summary

Prep Time	1 hr 30 mins
Cook Time	30 mins
Total Time	5 hrs
Course	Main Course
Cuisine	European
Servings (Default: 6)

Ingredients

400 g chicken

For the marinade:

200 ml yogurt, Greek
1 tablespoon ginger paste
1 tablespoon garlic paste
1 teaspoon chili powder (red Kashmir chili powder)
2 teaspoons coriander seeds, ground
0.5 teaspoon ½ turmeric powder
1 ½ teaspoon garam masala
2 tablespoon lime juice
possibly cardamom pods

For the sauce:

Instructions

It is better to start the preparations at least 3 hours in advance on the evening before.
Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Add the yogurt, ginger paste, garlic paste, red Kashmiri chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric, garam masala, and lime juice. Depending on your taste, you can crush a few cardamom pods. Remove the peel and crush the seeds. Add enough yoghurt to moisten the meat completely and on all sides. Mix all ingredients well and place in the refrigerator. Add ¼ to ½ of the specified amount more to the spices, depending on your taste, especially to spices that have been lying around for a while as they lose their taste over time.
Cover a small handful of cashew nuts completely with water in a bowl and store in the refrigerator.
Sear the chicken briefly and spicy and quickly remove it from the pan. The meat will cook through in the sauce later. Never change or rinse the pans. The roasted aromas of the meat and the marinade should definitely be added to the sauce later!
For the sauce, add a tablespoon of butter to the pan and briefly fry the cardamom pods and cloves. Poke cardamom pods so the seeds can come out while cooking. Add the onion and fry until translucent. Fry the ground coriander seeds, garam masala and ginger briefly. Deglaze everything with the tomato sauce. Let it reduce a little and then add the remaining butter. Stir in a good pinch of sugar, crushed cashew nuts and bay leaves and simmer for a few minutes until the fat separates from the sauce (that`s by design!). Put the meat in the sauce and let it cook through. Thanks to the marinade, the meat remains soft and juicy. Add turmeric and a little pepper and season with salt. If you like it stronger, you can now season well. If the sauce is not enough, you can now add some of the tomato sauce. Just before serving, stir in the cream and the dried fenugreek leaves.
There is also rice and naan bread.

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