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BUTTER CHICKEN (RAMAZAN SPECIAL BY CUISINE EXPERT AMBER INAM)

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RECIPE BY CUISINE EXPERT AMBER INAM

PHOTOS BY AIMAN INAM

Ingredients

½-kg boneless Chicken (cut into pieces)

1 Onion (chopped)

1 tbsp Ginger-Garlic paste

1 tsp Cumin

1 tbsp Red Chili powder

½- tbsp All Spices powder

A pinch of Turmeric powder

½-cup Yogurt

2 tbsps Cream

1 tbsp Lemon Juice

2 tbsps Butter

2 tbsps Oil

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Method

  • Add yogurt, salt, all spices, red chili powder, turmeric powder, ginger and garlic paste in a bowl and mix it well. Add chicken into it and marinate the mixture for 2 hours.

  • Heat oil and butter in a pan and add cumin into it. Once it leaves the aroma, add onion into it. When the onion turns into light brown in color, add chicken into it.

  • Stir the mixture for 10 minutes on high flame. Then add lemon juice and cover the lid. Let it cook for 10 more minutes on low flame. Then add 1 tbsp of cream into it and switch off the stove.

  • Top with coriander and the remaining cream. Serve with naan!

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.