How do I make it?

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1. For juicy and soft butter chicken you need to perform 2 - step marination:

2. First marination:

3. Wash and pat dry the chicken thighs. Place them in oven safe container

4. Pour lemon juice and red chilli powder and mix well

5. Let the chicken sit in this marinade for 15 mins

6. In the meantime, you can create marinade for the second marination

7. Second marination:

8. Take a bowl and add greek yoghurt to it. Blend well to mix any lumps

9. Now add 1 tsp turmeric, 1 tsp kasuri methi, 1 tbsp melted ghee and 1 tbsp garam masala to the bowl from step 8. Mix well

10. Once the 15 mins of first marination are up, add the contents of the bowl from step 9 to chicken in the container

11. Mix well and place the container in refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

12. The longer you keep the chicken in the marinade, softer and juicier it will get

13. The real stuff:

14. Preheat the oven at 450 F and bake chicken for 30 mins

15. In the meantime, start off by chopping the onions

16. Heat a pan on medium-low flame and melt the 2 tbsp ghee in it

17. Once the ghee has melted add cumin, bay leaves, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon sticks and pepper and let it cook for a couple of mins. It is cooked when you can smell the aroma of dry spices

18. Now add onions and sautee till they turn golden brown. Keep the flame on medium

19. In the meantime blend the ginger and garlic into a paste. Don’t discard the blender container we will be blending the tomatoes in it next

20. Once the onions are done add ginger garlic and sautee for about 3 mins

21. Blend the tomatoes in the blender to make a puree

22. Add tomatoes to the pan from step 7 and cook till the tomatoes lose all of the water.  Keep stirring every 5-10 mins. This is a critical step, make sure all of the water evaporates from tomatoes before you move to the next step. Your tomatoes will become like a thick paste when they are done

23. Add garam masala, coriander powder, chilli powder, turmeric, chaat masala and salt and stir for couple of minutes. Bring the flame to a low

24. By this time your chicken should be ready to be taken out of oven

25. Add chicken to the pan from step 23

26. Mix well and cook on medium-low flame for 30 mins

27. Serve your Butter Chicken with Indian roti (See Recipe) or cauliflower rice (See Recipe) and Love.