Butter Chicken or Chicpeas

Ingredients (Spice Mix)

  • 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
  • ½ tbsp cuman
  • ½ tbsp corriander
  • 1 tsp kasoori methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
  • ½ tbsp garam masala
  • Chili powder to taste

Ingredients

  • 300 g boneless chicken breast, or large can of chicpeas
  • Oil, for pan-frying
  • 2-4 tbsp tomato paste
  • 100 g onions, blitzed in food processor
  • 5 tbsp butter (optional)
  • Heavy Cream to taste

Instructions

  • Cook Onions: Blast your onions in a food processor. Drop into a pot with 2-4tbsp oil. Cook until the onions don’t taste like onions anymore. ~10mins
  • Cook Ginger/Garlic: Push onions over and drop in ginger/garlic, cook until fragrant. ~2mins
  • Activate all Spices: Push everything over and, drop in 1-2tbsp of oil and cook the spices (except fenugreek leaves and red chili powder) in this until fragrant ~1min
  • Add Tomato paste: Mix this in, making the final masala
  • Add Chicken: Add chicken if not using chicpeas, cook on medium until cooked through
  • Add Cream: Add an amount of cream depending on how rich you like the gravy minimum 1/4 cup. You can also add water/stock.
  • Add butter: Depending if you want it to be more buttery or not.
  • Add Chic peas: and fenugreek leaves. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

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