Recipe#11809
Title: Butter Chicken
From: diana@ix.netcom.com(Diana L. Ford )Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 31 Oct 1996 00:30:28 GMT
Message-ID: <558rv4$cpv@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
BUTTER CHICKEN
1 small chicken1/2 cup curd
1/2 pod garlic (ground)
2 cm piece ginger (ground)
1/2 teaspoon Red chilies (ground)
1/2 kg tomatoes
salt to taste
8 teaspoons tomato ketchup
1/4 teaspoon red chili powder
1/2 cup crushed cashewnuts
4 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon sugar
a few drops of red coloring
Marinate the chicken pieces in curd, garlic, ginger, chilies and salt
for 4-5 hours. Then pressure cook the chicken until tender (5-7
minutes). Blanch tomatoes and strain them to make a puree. Put the
puree, salt, chili powder and sugar in a pan. Cook it on a slow fire
till the puree thickens. Add 2 tablespoons butter, chicken pieces,
tomato ketchup and cashewnuts. Cook for a few minutes before serving,
add 1 tablespoon butter and heat it. Place it in the serving dish and
put 1 more tablespoon butter.