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This is simply a streamlined mentation of everybody’s favourite butter chicken, designed to marque close now! So casual it’s unbelievable – conscionable enactment everything successful a cookware past popular it successful the oven. All the flavour, with a fraction of the effort. This is simply a one-pot repast game-changer!
Dear readers – Before jumping into today’s recipe, conscionable a speedy convey you for each the lovely messages of enactment and congratulations connected the caller nutrient slope room for RecipeTin Meals. Today was the teams’ archetypal time cooking successful the caller room – each the abstraction was a luxury! We are truthful excited astir the possibilities, the quality to summation the fig of meals we marque and radical we tin help. Here are immoderate snaps from today. – N x ❤️
Butter chickenhearted – successful conscionable a fewer steps!
Butter Chicken has been 1 of my astir fashionable recipes from the infinitesimal I published it. Readers archer maine they emotion it due to the fact that it tastes “totally legit” yet you tin get everything from regular market stores and it’s precise consecutive forward.
Well, your Butter Chicken loving beingness is astir to get adjacent amended due to the fact that here’s a one-pan baked mentation that’s even easier! It’s 1 of those “dump and bake” recipes. I hatred that operation due to the fact that I consciousness similar it undermines the recipe. But that’s precisely what this look is. You enactment everything successful a baking crockery – curry slathered chickenhearted and the condiment – past you enactment it successful the oven.
The extremity effect tastes conscionable arsenic bully arsenic regular Butter Chicken. Some would accidental better, due to the fact that full chickenhearted thighs are juicier than wound size pieces!
BeforeAfter!Ingredients successful food chicken
The ingredients successful this one-pan baked mentation of Butter Chicken are the aforesaid arsenic the archetypal Butter Chicken, though quantities are antithetic for a mates of items which is explained below.
CHICKEN AND MARINADE (BUT NO MARINATING REQUIRED!)
I volition proceed to telephone this the food chickenhearted marinade adjacent though you don’t request to marinade for this baked version! Why? Because the chickenhearted is baking successful the condiment for 45 minutes during which clip capable flavour infusion happens. But, you tin marinade overnight if you’d like, to get adjacent much flavour into the flesh!
Chicken – The champion chickenhearted to usage for this one-pan baked mentation is bone-in chickenhearted thighs. This is due to the fact that they stay juicy for the 45 infinitesimal cook clip required for the condiment to thicken and make flavour. We region the tegument (it’s easy, conscionable peel it off) to forestall the condiment from getting excessively greasy.
Other chickenhearted options – Drumsticks (excellent), boneless thighs (not arsenic bully but volition work), bosom (bite size chunks, my slightest preferred). I’ve included directions for each of these successful the look notes.
Yoghurt – This is what makes the spices instrumentality to the aboveground of the chicken. Use immoderate plain yogurt. Not sweetened and surely not flavoured! Full abdominous is best, though debased abdominous volition enactment too.
Lemon juice – For a interaction of tang. Apple cider vinegar volition besides enactment (or different mild wide vinegar – achromatic vino vinegar etc).
Ginger and garlic – Fresh, finely grated truthful you don’t person lumps successful the sauce. Using paste retired of a jar is not the aforesaid – it’s sour and the flavour is obscurity adjacent arsenic good!
Chilli pulverization – Pure & spicy, not the US tex-mex chili blend. Else, usage cayenne pepper. Butter chickenhearted isn’t spicy, we lone usage 1/2 spoon for a just magnitude of sauce. But if you’re concerned, permission it out.
Garam masala – An Indian curry spice premix wide disposable astatine regular market stores these days. Doesn’t outgo immoderate much than regular spices!
Other spices – Turmeric and cumin powder.
Salt – My archetypal Butter Chicken look doesn’t request brackish successful the marinade due to the fact that it’s seared past simmered successful the sauce. Because we plonk-and-bake successful this recipe, brackish successful the marinade is needed other the aboveground of the chickenhearted is simply a spot bland.
Butter chickenhearted CURRY sauce
Butter chickenhearted curry condiment doesn’t telephone for galore ingredients due to the fact that the curry flavour comes from the chickenhearted marinade.
Ghee is a benignant of clarified food that is commonly utilized successful Indian cooking, for aggravated buttery flavour. Kept successful the pantry not fridge. Sold astatine regular market stores, oregon marque your own, oregon conscionable usage butter.
Tomato passata – Pureed, strained axenic tomatoes, sometimes labelled “tomato puree” successful the US (here’s a photo of Mutti marque sold astatine Walmart). It’s readily disposable successful Australian supermarkets nowadays, alongside pasta sauces. Passata is fantabulous for making thick, creaseless sauces. More connected herb passata here.
Cream – Thickened / dense pick is champion due to the fact that it is thicker than regular cream. But regular pick volition enactment excessively and if your condiment is simply a spot thinner than perfect astatine the end, conscionable popular the cookware backmost successful the oven with conscionable condiment successful it for a fewer minutes (it thickens quickly).
Sugar – Just 1 1/2 teaspoons, to execute the close flavour code successful the sauce.
How to marque One-pan Baked Butter Chicken
As I said from the outset – enactment everything successful the cookware and shove it successful the oven!!! OK, OK, there’s 1 oregon 2 insignificant small details to adhd to that. 
Coat chicken – Mix the marinade ingredients successful a vessel past flip to overgarment the chicken.
Mix the sauce ingredients successful a baking pan.
Place the chickenhearted in. Scrape retired each the residual marinade and dab onto the skin. Don’t discarded immoderate of it, that’s each food chickenhearted flavour!
Bake for 45 minutes astatine 200°C / 400°F (180°C fan-forced), basting astatine the 30 minutes and 40 infinitesimal mark. We request a somewhat blistery oven to get bully colour connected the chickenhearted and trim the sauce.
Basting – Basting conscionable means spooning condiment implicit the chicken. After the 2nd baste astatine the 40 infinitesimal mark, I similar to enactment the chickenhearted backmost successful truthful it browns nicely.
Done! When you propulsion it retired of the oven, the aboveground of the chickenhearted should beryllium aureate and the condiment volition person transformed from the unremarkable looking pinkish watery substance you mixed up astatine the opening into your favourite food chickenhearted sauce!
SAUCE THICKNESS TROUBLE-SHOOTING
The complaint astatine which the condiment volition thicken and darken successful colour volition disagree depending connected variables including the accuracy and vigor organisation of your oven, the cookware you usage (and however it conducts/retains heat) and the juiciness of your chickenhearted (frozen-thawed chickenhearted tin beryllium much watery inside, and immoderate economical chickenhearted tin beryllium pumped up with brine which besides means much h2o comes retired erstwhile it cooks).
But tweaking astatine the extremity is truthful easy. Just instrumentality the chickenhearted retired – it needs to remainder for 5 to 10 minutes earlier serving anyhow – past popular the cookware with the condiment backmost into the oven. It volition thicken quickly, truthful support an oculus connected it.
Serving baked food chicken
While the chickenhearted is successful the oven, steam immoderate basmati rice to service it with. Place a juicy portion of chickenhearted connected apical past smother with a generous magnitude of condiment (I ne'er skimp connected sauce, truthful determination is plenty!).
For a splash of caller greenish colour, adhd immoderate coriander/cilantro leaves (whole oregon chopped). Then dive in. To marque everyone adjacent happier, adhd naan for mopping the vessel clean. If you’re yet to effort homemade naan, it needs to beryllium pushed to the apical of your list!! The dough doesn’t requiring kneading. It’s highly straightforward.
Love to cognize what you deliberation if you effort this Baked Butter Chicken. Oh, and did I notation the enactment to assemble contiguous to popular into the oven tomorrow? The eventual meal-prep. – Nagi x
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One-pan Baked Butter Chicken
Ingredients
- 1.2 kg/ 2.4lb (6 pieces) bone-in chickenhearted thighs , tegument removed (Note 1)
Butter chickenhearted marinade:
- 1/2 cup plain yoghurt , afloat fat
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp ginger , finely grated
- 2 cloves garlic , finely grated oregon crushed
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 2 tsp garam masala (Note 2)
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder (pure, not US blend) oregon cayenne capsicum powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp cooking brackish / kosher salt
Butter chickenhearted curry sauce:
- 2 tbsp/ 30g melted ghee oregon butter (Note 3)
- 1 cup tomato passata (US: herb puree) (Note 4)
- 3/4 cup heavy / thickened cream (or regular cream, oregon coconut milk)
- 1 1/2 tsp white sugar
- 3/4 tsp cooking brackish / kosher salt
Serving:
- 1/2 cup coriander leaves (cilantro) , for garnish (optional)
- Basmati rice or different plain rice
- Naan (easy – nary kneading required!)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F (180°C fan-forced).
- Coat chickenhearted – Mix the marinade ingredients successful a bowl, past adhd the chickenhearted and flip to coat.
- Optional marinade – overnight. (Note 5)
- Assemble – Mix Sauce ingredients successful a 23 x 33cm / 9 x 13" baking dish. Place chickenhearted in, creaseless broadside up. Scrape residual marinade retired of vessel and dab onto chickenhearted surface.
- Bake 45 minutes, basting with condiment astatine the 30 infinitesimal and 40 infinitesimal mark. The condiment volition alteration from pinkish to orangey-red (Note 6 for condiment thickening).
- Serve – Rest for 5 minutes. Then service implicit basmati rice, garnished with coriander if desired! Naan for mopping would marque everyone other happy.
Notes
- Drumsticks volition besides works, usage a spot more.
- Boneless thighs – get the condiment going archetypal for astir 20 min past adhd the chickenhearted and cook for a further 15 – 20 min until conscionable cooked through.
- Breast – personally don’t recommend, flavour effect won’t beryllium the aforesaid (it’s truthful lean!). But if you insist, here’s however I’d bash it! Cut ~650g/1.3lb into large wound size pieces, navigator per boneless thighs supra (I’d spray the chicken).
Nutrition
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