This butter chicken is always a winner in our house. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! It’s tasty, simple, and a real family favourite! If you like it a bit spicier just add some extra chilli, however, we like it as per the recipe below.
You may like to serve it with some of our homemade Naan bread recipe – yummo!! or even with Cauli rice instead of rice!
Tip: Instead of a tin of tomatoes, you could use 6 small fresh tomatoes.
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Ingredients
- 1 brown onion
- 2 garlic clove
- 1 tsp. ginger
- 50 g butter or coconut oil
- 1 tsp. chilli powder (for medium spice level)
- 1 tsp. ground turmeric
- 2 tsp. garam marsala
- 2 tsp. ground coriander
- 2 tsp. ground cumin powder
- 400 g tin tomatoes
- 3 tbsp. cornflour
- 4 chicken breast
- 130 g cream or coconut cream
- 100 g natural or coconut yoghurt
- 4 tsp. brown or rapadura sugar
Instructions
Thermal Cooking Method
- Place onion, garlic, and ginger into mixing jug and blitz 3 seconds/speed 7. Scrape down sides, add softened butter (or coconut oil), and cook 2 minutes/100ºC/speed 2.
- Add chilli, turmeric, garam masala, coriander and cumin and cook for a further 2 minutes/steaming temp/speed 2.
- Add tomatoes and cornflour and puree for 10 seconds/speed 7.
- Insert whipping tool, then add chicken and cook 15 minutes/100ºC/reverse/speed 1/MC off.
- Add cream, yoghurt, and sugar and cook 2 minutes/100ºC/reverse/speed 1.
Traditional Cooking Method
- Finely dice onion and mince garlic and ginger then add to a large frying pan over high heat, together with softened butter (or coconut oil), chilli, turmeric, garam masala, coriander, and cumin. Cook for 3 - 5 minutes then remove from heat.
- Add the diced chicken and bring back to medium-high heat and cook for 5 minutes, stirring often.
- Combine the tomatoes and cornflour together (puree is best), then pour over the chicken. Simmer for 15 minutes, stirring often.
- Reduce heat to low, add sugar, yoghurt, and cream. Stir until well combined. Cook for a final 5 minutes.
- Serve with rice, cauliflower rice, naan bread or pappadums.
YUM! Family favourite
Yum! This is the easiest butter chicken I’ve ever made. So quick too! I don’t have a thermomix so I used the traditional cooking method. We loved it. My two boys (9 and 12) took the leftovers in their thermoses for lunch today. In fact Mr 12 wants to make it next time when it’s his turn to make dinner.
So great to see the kids enjoying it as well. Yum :)
This recipe is regularly requested by my children. They love it!
I do add some veggie stock paste to help enhance the flavours and balance the sweetener.
Delish!
Hi ladies
Great website/Insta page……I love it! So useful and my 7 year old just said that this is the best curry I’ve ever made – I’m of Indian heritage!!
Just wondering whether you know how many kilos 4 chicken breasts would be please? I often buy pre diced depending on my week. This time I bought 1.5 kilos but think it might be a bit too much. Thanks heaps and keep doing what you’re doing – fabulous!
Don’t no why I’m
So late to the party with this recipe so yum I coated the sauce in with my chicken drumsticks and put them in a slow pot
There was more sauce left over they we will have on tne rice