Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Quick Carmen's Butter Chicken

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Carmen's Butter Chicken is 2 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have Carmen's Butter Chicken using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Butter chicken (original name: Murgh Makkhani) is an amalgamate recipe that consists of Tandoori chicken cooked in a Butter chicken sauce. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, if you wish to create Butter chicken from scratch, you must first invent Tandoori chicken.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Carmen's Butter Chicken:

1. 2 lb chicken breast, skinless, boneless
2. 3 tbsp Tandoori Mix powder
3. 1 medium white onion, finely
4. 2 medium ripe tomatoes, coarsely
5. 3 clove garlic, chopped
6. 1 tsp ginger, chopped
7. 1/2 tsp coriander powder
8. 1/2 tsp cumin powder
9. 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
10. 1 tsp Garam Masala powder
11. 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
12. 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
13. 3 bay leaves
14. 2 tbsp Fenugreek leaves
15. 2 tbsp curry leaves
16. 1 tsp sugar
17. 1 handful unsalted cashew
18. 3 tbsp canola oil
19. to taste Salt

Instructions to make to make Carmen's Butter Chicken

1. Cut chicken into small bite-sized pieces, place in large baking tray, add Tandoori Mix, mix thoroughly, cover with foil and refrigerate overnight. This is essentially Tandoori chicken.
2. Once the Tandoori chicken has marinated overnight, place the baking tray (foil on) in a preheated to 350°F convection oven. Baking the chicken can take anywhere between 20 - 35 minutes depending on what kind of convection oven you have.
3. Place a large cooking pot on a stove set to medium-high heat. Pour in canola oil, and add in onions, ginger, and garlic once the oil is hot. Cover pot with lid, stirring occasionally until the onions turn translucent.
4. Add in coriander, cumin, turmeric, garam masala, cardamom, cinnamon, curry leaves, sugar, tomatoes, and a few pinches of salt and mix thoroughly. The tomatoes should prevent the mixture from becoming too dry, but if it does get too dry, add in some water.
5. Stir the mixture for a few minutes, and then pour it out of the cooking pot into a blender and blend until it turns into a creamy paste. Pour the paste back into the cooking pot, keeping the pot on low heat. Use a spoon or spatula to scoop out as much of the sauce as possible from the blender. There's no need to wash the blender for now.
6. Add the bay leaves to the cooking pot
7. Take the Tandoori chicken from step 2, and pour it, including all the juices, into the cooking pot, and mix thoroughly
8. Put cashew nuts into the (creamy) blender, and add 1/2 a cup of water, and a few pinches of salt. Blend until all the cashews are ground up and the mixture turns milky.
9. Gently pour the cashew mix into the saucepan, and stir.
10. Add in fenugreek leaves, and stir some more. Let it stand for a few hours before serving. Or better it, refrigerate overnight, and serve the next day.

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