Ingredients
Butter chicken
- 4 tbsp Coconut Oil or Ghee
- 1 onion, Large (halved)
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 tsp garam masala
- 1 tsp ground cardamom
- 1 tsp Ground Coriander
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1-2 pinches cayenne pepper, (optional)
- 1 tsp ground tumeric
- 3 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 can coconut cream, 400ml
- 700 g Chicken thigh fillets, cut into large chunks (can use up to 1kg)
- 1 bunches coriander leaves, to serve
Cauliflower Rice
- 500 grams cauliflower, (broken into florets)
- 500 grams water
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- ***would highly recommend using the cashews to thicken the sauce. Add 100g to your bowl, mill for 10 eed 9, then set aside. When dish is finished, add cashews and let sit for about 5 mins***
I have started to add an extra dose of spices and am really liking that version, add another half portion to the original recipe (1.5 tsp cumin instead of 1 etc). I have also been adding a tsp of cinnamon. - Add onion to the bowl and chop 5 secs/ sp 4
Add 2 tbs of the coconut oil - Saute 4 min/120 deg /
"Gentle stir setting" / MC off
Add garlic, chop 3 sec/ sp 7/ MC on
Add all spices & saute 2min/100 deg/"Gentle stir setting" / MC off
Add the tomato paste & cook 1min/120deg/"Gentle stir setting" / MC off
Add salt, lemon juice, coconut cream and remaining coconut oil- mix 3 sec/
"Counter-clockwise operation" /sp 3/ MC off
Cook for 5 min/ 80 deg/"Counter-clockwise operation" /sp 1/ MC off
Add chicken, cook 11 mins/100 deg/"Counter-clockwise operation" /"Gentle stir setting" / MC on
Check chicken is cooked through & garnish with coriander and serve with cauliflower rice.
If using milled cashews stir through and sit for 5 mins prior to serving (or while you make the cauli rice)
Image credit- Pete Evans cookbook " Family Food" - 1.Add florets to the bowl
2.Chop 5 sec/"Counter-clockwise operation" / sp 5
3. Transfer "rice" to steaming basket
4. Add water and cook 10-12 min/ Varoma/sp 3
Cooking time depends on your preference of texture.
Butter Chicken
Cauli Rice
Tip
***If you would like to have a thicker sauce, mill 100g of raw cashews at the beginning of the recipe, set aside and add at the end, stirring through with spatula.
***You can easily add up to 1kg of chicken thighs to this recipe!
*** This is delicious served with a dollop of coyo or Greek/natural yoghurt if able to have dairy.
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Recipe is created forTM 5
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Comments
We love this recipe, have been making for quite some time, we can't use onion or garlic due to family members dietary requirements, and has still amazing flavour. I'm just wondering if we could make this a vegetarian vs and maybe use chickpeas. Do u think this is possible? Obviously wouldn't cook for as long. Thanks in advance.
This is my favourite butter chicken recipe in the whole wide world! Thank you for converting it for Thermomix.
Sarah.Speerstra: I've never had that problem with it being grainy but I don't use almond meal, only cashews that I milled myself to a very fine consistency so that would be why. I do love the Skinnymixers butter chicken but can't be bothered wil all the steps! I don't think it would have a patch on the traditional recipes you would have had growing up, perhaps you can tweak the recipes to use the ingredients you normally eat?
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Magdaline: Onion is chopped in Step 2
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Jen_Cousens: Hi Jen, no I haven't made any amendments to it besides adding the tip about the cashews and about the cinnamon? Hope it worked out for you with the cinnamon omitted!
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Just as good as the non-thermomix version (Which I always made prior to becoming a thermomix owner) Loved the cashew idea!
I’ve been making this since 2015 (which I originally gave it a 5 star rating), but I have to ask has an amendment been made in the recipe recently? Because it’s gone from a 5 star rating to a 2/3.
I like how milling the cashews has moved up the top, but I personally would not add cinnamon again. Maybe it was the adding of this spice that has changed it?!
I will try again without the cinnamon and fingers crossed we have the old recipe back.
This recipe is a winner! Definitely increase the spices as stated for more flavour. Next time I will use about a kilo of chicken thighs instead of 700gms.
Thank you!
Sorry but thos was Absolutely awful! If i could give no star I would. Followed everyone's suggestions, still found it too runny with (I put almond meal) spices were not cooked through enough, very grainy and pastey and bland. Does not taste like butter chicken. I'm half Indian and was brought up on the stuff I should know. Skinny is much better. Very disappointed.
This is so yummy !!! Only thing I notice is that the onion has not used at all.....