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Writer's pictureBenjamin Osei-Nyame

Butter Chicken and Naan

I fell in love with this dish because I really wanted to know if the hype was true, and I’m here to let you know it was it is and it should never die down. Shout out Indian cuisine


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Butter chicken Ingredients

- [ ] 3 tbs ghee/ vegetable oil

- [ ] 1/3 cup Plain yogurt

- [ ] 1 tbs Cumin.

- [ ] 2tbs Garam masala

- [ ] 2tbs Curry powder

- [ ] 1 tbs Chilli powder

- [ ] 1tbs Onion powder

- [ ] 2 tbs Garlic powder

- [ ] 2tbs lemon juice

- [ ] Salt to taste

- [ ] Cubed up chicken thighs/enough to fit in the yoghurt mixture, adapt the quantity to chicken

- [ ] 1 Handful, cashew nuts

- [ ] 1 brown onion

- [ ] 6 tomatoes, or canned tomatoes will work as well

- [ ] Repeat the listed seasonings above

- [ ] 1 tablespoon of garlic paste

- [ ] 1tbs ginger paste

- [ ] 2/3 a cup heavy cream/double cream

- [ ] Fresh parsley


Naan ingredients

- [ ] One cup flour

- [ ] 2 tablespoons oil

- [ ] 1 tsp salt

- [ ] Half a packet of yeast

- [ ] Garlic, butter, parsley


- [ ] for a brighter colour, add more tomatoes and cream,



Instructions

- [ ] Make the chicken marinade

- [ ] Cube up the chicken thighs, chicken breast will cook so less time

- [ ] Let the chicken sit in the marinade for about 30 minutes covered

- [ ] Stay off the chicken, 3 to 4 minutes on each side, remove and then set aside

- [ ] Work on your onions tomatoes for about 5 minutes,

- [ ] and garlic, cashews tomatoes, for another 3 minutes

- [ ] Add in the cream for another 3 minutes

- [ ] Blend the mixture and cook for a minute

- [ ] Add back in your cooked chicken and heavy cream for about five minutes

- [ ] Seasoned to taste with salt, if too sharp add a pinch of baking soda to cut the acidity in the tomatoes

- [ ] Combine plain, flour, oil, salt, and yeast, in a bowl mixed together until a dough is formed

- [ ] Roll out with some more plain flour into flat like shapes

- [ ] 1/2 amount of water to flour (until a firm dough is formed) I rest mine for about 10 to 15 minutes to give the time to activate.

- [ ] Roll the dough into flat like tortilla shapes and cook for a 1:30 min to 3 minutes in a cast iron skillet or hot frying pan until puffed up and done






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