Butter Chicken

↻ 2025-06-26

Butter Chicken

Ingredients

Main pot

• 396g canned tomatoes
• 5-6 cloves garlic
• 2t minced ginger
• 1t turmeric
• 1t cayenne pepper
• 1t smoked paprika
• 1t kosher salt
• 1t garam masala
• 1t ground cumin
• 1/4t ghost pepper powder
• 1lb boneless chicken (whatever)

Sauce finishing

• 120g heavy cream
• 113g (usually 1 stick) butter
• 1t garam masala
• chopped cilantro for garnish

Procedure

• Everything goes into the instant pot, except the stuff for sauce finishing.
• Cook 10min on high. Allow to release pressure naturally for 10min, then vent manually.
• Open pot, remove chicken.
• Use an immersion blender to reduce the rest of the stuff in the pot to a sauce.
• Add the “Sauce finishing” ingredients above and stir until incorporated.
• Remove half the sauce to the refrigerator (or freeze) and use for something else.
• Serve the other half the sauce over the chicken you removed, with rice, if you want.

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