Butter chicken
Rice Fast: ⭐⭐ Easy: ⭐⭐
Instructions
- Mix all the marinade ingredients, add the fake chicken and let it sit in the marinade for at least 1h. (1h)
- Heat up (wok) oil in a frying pan and let the whole spices and turmeric infuse for 1 minute. (1 minute)
- Add the onion and carrot and cook for 10 minutes. Add the salt and garlic and ginger paste and cook for 1 minute before adding the tomatoes. (10 minutes)
- In the meantime, cook the rice with a bouillon blokje. For basmati rice, put the rice and 1.5x its weight in cold water in a pan. Crumble the bouillon blokje and mix it in. Heat on high heat until it boils then put on a lid and on the lowest heat. After ~8 minutes (or whenever all the water seems absorbed), turn the heat off and let the rice rest with the lid on for at least 10 minutes. (~18 minutes)
- To the frying pan, add the paprika and ground cumin and coriander and cook for 3 minutes. (3 minutes)
- Add the fake chicken along with the marinade and heavy cream.
- Adjust the taste of the curry with salt and chili if needed. Remove the whole spices if you can find them to avoid biting on it.
- Serve the butter chicken with rice and/or naan, black pepper and garam masala, and optionally fresh coriander.
Additional Recipes
Naan
Ingredients
- 300 g flour
- 10 mL baking powder
- 5 mL salt
- 100 mL milk
- 5 mL dried yeast
- 10 mL sugar
- 1 egg
- 90 g greek yogurt
- ghee/butter
- nigella seeds
Instructions
- Mix yeast and sugar with warm milk and leave 20 minutes.
- Beat the egg and yogurt together.
- Add both mixtures to the sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Knead and leave to rise 2-10h.
- Roll disks and cook on a very hot pan without fat. Brush with melted ghee and nigella seeds.
Serving Suggestions
Serve with rice, Serve with naan, Top with fresh coriander