Butter Chicken Curry - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 lbs skinless chicken, and cut into 2-inch pieces
1 inch gingerroot
6 garlic cloves
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
5 ounces plain yogurt
1 lemon, juice of
1 cinnamon stick, 2-inch long broken up
10 green cardamoms
6 cloves
10 red chili peppers
8 peppercorns
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons tomato puree
8 ounces butter
14 ounces chopped tomatoes
5 fluid ounces single cream

Preparation

Grind together the cinnamon, cardamoms, cloves, chillies and peppercorns.
Mix the spices into the yogurt, add the juice of the lemon blend well.
Marinate the chicken in this mix for about two hours.
Crush the garlic and ginger to a pulp with the salt, this can be done with the blade of a knife.
Heat the oil in a pan or wok and fry the ginger and garlic pulp for 1 minute. Add the chicken and spices and cook for ten minutes.
Add then tomato puree and tinned tomatoes, and butter, bring to the boil reduce the heat and simmer till the chicken is cooked.
Stir in the cream and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
Serve with boiled rice and curried pineapple.
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