Chicken Makhani

== Ingredients ==
* 2 pounds of (bony) chicken
* 1 cup yogurt (dahi)
* 1" piece of ginger
* 8 cloves garlic
* 2 tbsp lime juice
* 4" stick of cinnamon
* 8 cloves
* 8 cardamoms
* 10 black peppercorns
* 1 tbsp oil
* 2¼ pounds tomatoes
* 1 tsp dried fenugreek leaves (optional)
* 1 tbsp white pepper powder (essential)
* 1 ounce cream (optional but recommended for a touch of class)
* 1 !!pound!! butter (you can get away with 0.6 lb if 1 lb is too much)
* salt to taste if you use yellow butter, then scale down the salt accordingly. If you use white butter, then you will need more salt.
* coriander (cilantro): optional topping.
== Directions ==
# Clean chicken and remove the skin.
# Make a smooth paste of yogurt, garlic, ginger, lime juice, cinnamon, cloves, cardamoms, peppercorns and the oil.
# Marinate the chicken in this for 6 hours.
# Bake the chicken in a preheated oven for 10 minutes at 250°F (130°C). Put it aside.
# We need to get a tomato sauce.
# Cut tomatoes, put 'em in a pan (no water) and boil.
# When the quantity has dropped by half, strain through a fine sieve.
# What comes out of the sieve is the tomato sauce (this is hard work with a clumsy sieve).
# Take a pan, start heating the sauce, add the butter.
# When the butter is melted, add the white pepper powder, salt, fenugreek leaves and cream.
# Mix the chicken pieces into this sauce.
# You may like chopped coriander (cilantro) as topping.
# Serve hot.
# This works best with good rice (i.e. basmati).
Category:Bangladeshi Meat Dishes
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