Butter Chicken

Ingredients:

1. Chicken - 1 kg ( cut into small cubes)
2. Onion ( cut lengthwise) -4 No
3. Kashmiri Chilly Powder - 2 tbsp
4. Garam Masala - 1 tbsp and 1 tsp 
5. Cloves- 3 Nos
6. Cardamon- 2 Nos
7. Bay leaves- 1
8. Ginger-garlic paste- 3 tbsp
9. Tomato paste-2 No
10. Cashew Paste -25 Grams
11. Jeerakam Powder-1 tsp
12. Kasoorimethi Powder-1/2tsp
13. Salt as required
14. Butter - 3 tbsp
15. Coriander Leaves - as required
16. Curd- 1/4 cup
17. Lime drops - as required
18.  Oil - as required 

Marination

1. Clean the chicken pieces well.
2. Marinate the chicken with lime drops, and salt as required for 1 hour.
3. After 1 hour marinate the chicken with 1/2 cup curd , 1 tsp Garam Masala for another 1 hour.
4. After it is ready , fry the chicken pieces till it is cooked. Please note not to deep fry the pieces and keep it aside.

How to Cook

1. Add oil into a cooking pan and saute the onions till they are translucent. Take 1/4th of the cooked onion and make it a paste .
2. Mix the onion paste with rest of the sauted onions.
3. Soak the cashewnuts for 15 minutes and make a a paste of it . Keep it aside.
4. To the onion mixture , add 3 tbsp butter . 
5. Add ginger garlic paste and cook till the raw smell of it goes.
6. Add the tomato paste , kashmiri chilly and  cook for sometime  till the oil start to leave the sides of the pan.
7. After it gets cooked well, add the chicken pieces , 1 cup water and let it get cooked for sometime. ( 5 minutes)
8. After 5 minutes , add the cashewnut paste , garam masala , kasoori methi and Cook till the gravy starts thickening.
9. Once the gravy is thickened , garnish with curry leaves and off the gas .
10. Seve hot with Fried rice or Nan or Roti.