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Low Fat Butter Chicken Recipe

Low Fat Butter Chicken
How to make Low Fat Butter Chicken

About Low Fat Butter Chicken Recipe: Here's the recipe of a low fat butter chicken. It's not at all rich but is yummy and quick to make. Get the flavors of butter chicken without any butter.

  • Total Cook Time 55 mins
  • Prep Time 10 mins
  • Cook Time 45 mins
  • Recipe Servings4
  • Easy

Ingredients of Low Fat Butter Chicken

  • 400 gms chicken chunks, sliced
  • 4 large onions
  • 2-3 cinnamon sticks
  • 4 cloves (laung)
  • 2 tej pata / bay leaves
  • 1 tbsp garlic paste
  • 2 cardamom
  • 5-6 large red tomatoes
  • to taste salt
  • 1/2 tsp red chilli or more if you want it really spicy
  • 1/2 tsp coriander powder
  • 1/4 tsp haldi / turmeric
  • 3-4 green chillies (slit from the middle and de seeded)
  • for garnishing fresh coriander
  • 1/4 cup yogurt/curd
  • 2 tsp oil

How to Make Low Fat Butter Chicken

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1.
Take a pan and put 2 tsp oil. Not too much cause there will be oil coming out of chicken as well.
2.
Now, add onion cut in long slices, cinnamon, tej pata, cardamom, garlic paste. Saute all this in oil nicely till the onion becomes brown.
3.
Close the gas and let the onions cool. Once they are little cool, churn/blend all this with chopped tomatoes and the curd/yogurt till you have a smooth paste.
4.
Note: Do not wash the pan in which onion was cooked before and let the left over oil of onions be in the pan.
5.
Now, take the earlier pan and saute chicken in left over oil of onion.
6.
After chicken is almost done, add the onion, tomato/curd paste with chicken and cook.
7.
Add salt to taste, red chilli, coriander powder, haldi, green chillies.
8.
Finally let chicken cook until the oil comes out and starts floating on the top.
9.
The color of the tomatoes should change to a nice red by now.
10.
Garnish it with coriander before serving.
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