Butter Chicken
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
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tandoori chicken
- 3 whole boneless skinless chicken breasts
- salt
- 1 teaspoon indian chili powder
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
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Butter Chicken Sauce
- 3⁄4 cup butter
- 3⁄4 cup whipping cream
directions
- tandoori chicken: with a sharp knife, make regular slits in chicken.
- rub salt into chicken and put in a large bowl to hold all the pieces in a single layer.
- Combine chili powder, pepper, ginger, garlic and paprika in a bowl, add yogurt and lemon juice and stir to blend.
- Pour over chicken and marinate for 10-12 hours in fridge.
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Remove chicken from marinade (reserve marinade) and put on a wire rack over a pan and bake for 35-45 minutes.
- remove from oven and cut in 1" cubes.
- Butter Chicken: in a saute pan melt butter.
- add reserved marinade and whipping cream and heat thoroughly to a temperature of a least 140F.
- for 2 minutes.
- Do not boil.
- Stir in cubed chicken and heat through.
- serve with basmatti rice.
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Reviews
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Good! I have tried only one butter chicken dish from a restaurant in Ottawa and it was sweet. This recipe was not. I wonder what restaurant this is from? I made our version less spicy by substituting a bit of cayenne pepper powder and some sweet paprika in place of the Indian chili powder. I used sea salt, plus the rest of the ingredients. I found the sauce a bit too thin but maybe that is how it is supposed to be? I served this over a cumin Basmati rice dish, along with recipe#110782 for a good tasting meal. The only reason I won't try this recipe again is because we are lactose intolerant.
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Good! I have tried only one butter chicken dish from a restaurant in Ottawa and it was sweet. This recipe was not. I wonder what restaurant this is from? I made our version less spicy by substituting a bit of cayenne pepper powder and some sweet paprika in place of the Indian chili powder. I used sea salt, plus the rest of the ingredients. I found the sauce a bit too thin but maybe that is how it is supposed to be? I served this over a cumin Basmati rice dish, along with recipe#110782 for a good tasting meal. The only reason I won't try this recipe again is because we are lactose intolerant.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
melsmom
waterloo, ontario