Butter Chicken. The healthier way!

We never requested a healthier version, but our teacher prefers alternatives to heavy cream!

dairy free: replace butter with margarine or coconut cream

Ingredients

1 large red onion, very thin sliced

1/4cup water

3 plum tomatoes

1/2 cup both water and skinned watermelon seeds (or cashew nuts)

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2 TBSP cooking oil

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

2 pieces of whole dry black cardamom 

2 pieces of cinnamon bark

1.5 TBSP garlic ginger paste AND Butter

1 tsp tumeric powder

1/4tsp chili powder

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1tsp salt

1 tsp king masala spice mix

1 tsp garam masala spice mix

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2 small chicken breasts, cubed, or any part of the chicken

STEPS

1. boil onions in water for 10 minutes in pressure cooker, or 30 minutes on stove. Blend SEPARATELY onion mix, tomatoes and seeds + water

2. In a pot, heat oil, add cumin seeds, cardamom, cinnamon bark. Cook for a minute till fragrant.
3. add gingergarlic paste, butter, tumeric and chili powder and cook till browned.
4. Add tomato puree and cook 5 minutes
5. add salt, seed puree, masala spices, onion mix and 0.5cups water, cook 5 more minutes.
6. add chicken and cook 20 minutes.

For presentation: drizzle some cream and freshly chopped coriander.

We ate this with Roti and basmatti rice

Great roti recipe at a ladies website called Manjula. She has many youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Manjulaskitchen


Breads
Roti: the very thin bread thats just flour and water
Nan: the fluffy amazing bread that everyone loves.

Tip: brush bread with ghee (clarified butter) or butter when out of the oven. Or go a step further and stuff it with garlic butter goodness!

In this video: Roti, chana masala, butter chicken and paneer mushroom masala... And Elana !