Homemade Butter Chicken

Throw it down like your favourite Indian restaurant, but in your own home 🏡

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

• 500g chicken breasts cut into chunks

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

• 1 red onion, diced

• 3 tablespoons tomato paste

• 4 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 tablespoon ginger, minced

• 1 ½ teaspoons garam masala

• 1 ½ teaspoons chili powder

• 1 ½ teaspoons ground tumeric

• ½ cup tomato sauce

• 1 cup chicken stock

• ½ heavy cream

• 2 tablespoons chopped dania leaves

Directions

1. Heat the vegetable oil in a large sufuria over medium heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper.

2. Fry the chicken to the sufuria and cook until golden, about 4-5 minutes. Take the chicken out of the sufuria and onto a plate.

3. In the same pan, stir in onions, tomato paste, garlic, ginger, garam masala, chili powder and turmeric until fragrant, about 1 minute.

4. Stir in tomato sauce and chicken stock; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until reduced and slightly thickened, about 10 minutes.

5. Stir in heavy cream until heated through, about 1 minute.

6. Serve immediately with rice, naan or chapati garnished with dania, if desired.

Enjoy and stay safe x

To all things tasty,

- T