Butter Chicken

Name: Butter Chicken
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon garam masala; 4 cardamom pods, lightly crushed; ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 75 g (2½ oz) blanched almonds; 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped; 2 cm (¾ inch) piece ginger, roughly chopped; ½ teaspoon chilli powder; 170 g (6 oz/⅔ cup) Greek-style yoghurt; 60 g (2¼ oz) butter or ghee; 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into fairly large pieces; 400 g (14 oz) tin chopped tomatoes; 1 handful coriander (cilantro), finely chopped; 80 ml (2½ fl oz/⅓ cup) cream; 1 large onion, thinly sliced; ¼ teaspoon ground cloves

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

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Ingredients

2 cm (¾ inch) piece ginger, roughly chopped
3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped

Main course
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Put the ginger and garlic in a food processor and blend to form a paste, or finely grate the ginger and crush the garlic and mix together. Grind the almonds in a food processor or finely chop with a knife.
Put the paste and almonds in a bowl with the yoghurt, chilli powder, cloves, cinnamon, garam masala, cardamom pods, tomato and