Amount: 3-4 portions
Time: 45-60 min
Ingredients:
Marinate:
- Chicken thigh 500 grams
- Lemon juice 1 tbsp
- Greek yogurt 10% fat 125 grams
- Garlic 3 cloves
- Ginger 2.5 cm
- Neutral oil 1 tbsp
- Fenugreek 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
- Garam masala 1 tsp
- Coriander seed 1 tsp
- Paprika powder 1 tsp
- Cumin powder 1 tsp
- Cayenne pepper ½ tsp
- Salt ½ tsp
Sauce:
- Canned tomatoes 800 grams
- Tomato paste 2 tbsp
- Neutral oil 1 tbsp
- Onion 1 piece large
- Cashew nuts 50 grams
- Ginger 2.5 cm
- Garlic 3 pieces
- Butter 2 tbsp
- Coriander 15 grams
- Naan bread 2 pieces
- Cardamom pod 1 piece
- Cinnamon stick 1 piece
- Garam masala 1.5 tsp
- Paprika powder 2 tsp
- Cayenne pepper ½ tsp
- Fenugreek ½ tsp
- Cumin powder ½ tsp
- Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
- Coriander seeds ½ tsp
- Cloves 3 pieces
- Dried chilis 2 pieces
- Heavy cream 100 ml
- Basmati rice
- Salt
Preparation:
Marinate:
- The day before (or at least 3 hours), cut the chicken thigh in strips roughly 2 cm wide.
- Add all the ingredients together in a bowl, make sure every herb/spice is in a powder form. Ground in pestle and mortar if needed! Grate the ginger and garlic.
Sauce:
- Dice the onion, grate the garlic and ginger. Finely chop the koriander.
- Pre-heat an oven at 220 C.
- Start cooking your rice according to package instructions.
- Add the oil to a pan and fry the onion and garlic/ginger paste till translucent and fragrant. Add the hard spices, Cinnamon, cardamonpod and cloves.
- Add the cashew nuts to the mix.
- On a backing sheet cook the chicken in the oven. Use a some non-stick baking paper to cook the chicken on. Roughly 20 min.
- Add the tomato paste and tomatoes, add all the other spices. Make sure the chilis, garam masala and coriander seeds are grinded in a powder form.
- Once everything is soft, remove the hard spices and blend until smooth.
- Strain the sauce back in the pan, add the cooked chicken and cook for a few min.
- Add the cream and stir until combined.
- Reduce the heat and add the butter, stir until combined.
- Garnish the dish with finely chopped coriander and naan bread.
- Add some mango chutney for some extra flavor!
- Enjoy!
