Chicken Makhani Curry

                      Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture
Ingredients:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture 14 large skinned chicken breasts
2 large red chillies
4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
150ml double cream
150ml natural yogurt
1 fresh lemon
1 tsp Garam Masala
2 tsp Ground Cumin
2 tblsp Coriander leaves
50g Butter
1/2 tsp salt
1.5kg fresh ripe tomatos



Step 1:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture 2Core and deseed the chillies, chop them up fine.



Step 2:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture 3Add the chillies, fine chopped garlic, cumin and garam masala to a small bowl.



Step 3:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture 4Mash it up and then add the juice of the lemon, coriander leaves and the yogurt to create the marinade. Really this should be blended but as I don't have a blender I did it by hand. If you have a blender though, use it.

Step 4:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture 5Chop up the chicken into 3cm pieces and put into a non metallic bowl



Step 5:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture 6Mix in the marinade with the chicken, cover and put in the fridge for 3 hours.

Step 6:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe picture 7While that is happening....

Quarter the tomatos and put into a pan with nothing else. Warm for 20mins on a low to medium heat

Step 7:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe photos 8They will start to go like this.



Step 8:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe photos 9Strain the tomatos into a clean pan using a fine seive. Throw away the skins and pulp left over.



Step 9:
step-by-step recipe photos 10You end up with a tomato sauce like so, heat this for 50 mins until reduced to a nice thick sauce. You may need to skim off any yellow stuff off the top as it is heating.

Step 10:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe photos 11Add in 50g of butter and salt then stir and heat for another 20 minutes.



Step 11:
Chicken Makhani Curry recipe photos 12Add in the 150ml of double cream, heat through thoroughly and set aside.



Step 12:
Chicken Makhani Curry cooking image 13By this time the chicken should be ready, so heat a pan with 3 tbl spoons of vegetable oil and add it all.



Step 13:
cooking image 14Cook for 15 minutes on a medium heat.



Step 14:
cooking image 15Add in the tomato sauce and stir and heat for 5 minutes.



Step 15:
cooking image 16The finished curry.



Step 16:
cooking image 17Serve with basmati rice.

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