Instant Pot Butter Chicken
Butter Chicken is one of the most well known and most popular takeaway dishes- now with the Instant Pot you can make it quicker than a trip to the local takeaway score.
Servings: 5
Calories: 496kcal
Cost: $10
Ingredients
- ½ cup Cream heavy cream or whipping cream
- 1 star anise
- 1 teaspoon fenugreek
- 4 cardamom pod small more liquorice smell
- 4 cloves
- 1 stick cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika or smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 3.5 oz Butter ½ for flavor - ½ for cooking 100g
- 1/2 cup Cream
- 2/3 cup chicken broth or stock
- 1 inch Ginger Chop finely
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 onions
- 3 garlic cloves- finely diced
- 2 lbs chicken 1kg
- 1/2 cup Plain yogurt
- 2 tablespoon Olive Oil or coconut oil
- 1 cup Tomato Passata Tomato Puree
- 2 tablespoons Tomato paste
Instructions
- Marinate: Take the chicken in a bowl and add the yoghurt and also add the lemon juice, chili and half of the garam masala and ginger. Leave that for at least 30 minutes - longer is better.
- Saute: Turn the instant pot onto saute setting and let it heat up - then add the olive oil and half of the butter plus the onion garlic and rest of the ginger and cook for 3-5 minutes until the onions are sweated down and translucent. Turn off the instant pot.
- Mix: Now add in all the other ingredients EXCEPT the butter and cream. Mix them well so that they are evenly dispersed in the liquid and put back the chicken. Use some of the salt, pepper and sugar for seasoning - keeping some for final seasoning after cooking.
- Pressure Cook: Set the electric pressure cooker to high pressure for 10 minutes and allow 10 minutes natural release.
- Final: Take off the lid - checking first there is no steam left by pushing the pressure release valve. Give a gentle stir and taste the sauce. Adjust with salt, pepper and sugar according to your taste. Just add a little by little as you can always add more seasoning but you can not take it out.
- Plate Up: Now you are ready to serve with your favorite side like basmati rice - how easy was that - a really easy Instant Pot Butter Chicken Recipe.
Notes
This dish can be frozen.
Nutrition
Serving: 200g | Calories: 496kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 21g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 136mg | Sodium: 536mg | Potassium: 735mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 1412IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 152mg | Iron: 4mg