North Indian
Home-Style Butter Chicken
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Home-Style Butter Chicken is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Toss the chicken with the yogurt, half the garam masala, and half the salt and let it marinate 20 minutes.
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Soak the cashews in hot water for 10 minutes, then blend them smooth with a splash of the water.
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Melt 2 tbsp butter in a pot and brown the marinated chicken in batches, then set it aside.
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In the same pot cook the onion, garlic, and ginger until soft, then stir in the cumin, chili powder, and crushed tomatoes and simmer 12 minutes.
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Blend the sauce smooth, return it to the pot with the cashew paste, remaining butter, and cream, and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
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Return the chicken to finish cooking, about 8 minutes, then crush in the fenugreek leaves and remaining garam masala and serve hot with roti or rice.
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Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Home-Style Butter Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Home-Style Butter Chicken carries tree nuts and dairy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | Aloo Paratha (Potato Stuffed Flatbread) |
| Dairy | Yes | Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 600 kcal
- Protein
- 40 g
- Carbs
- 17 g
- Fat
- 41 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
- Sodium
- 620 mg
- Saturated fat
- 21 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Home-Style Butter Chicken takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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