I try to eat clean whenever i can. But with mamak and hawker centres everywhere, it is definetely hard living in Malaysia while trying to eat clean. A little while ago, my best friend challenged me to make some clean butter chicken So, by tweaking a recipe given to me by my Aunt Deb i managed to make a really yummy clean version of Butter Chicken!
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| Clean butter chicken served with an egg white with long bean omelette |
Ingredients:
Olive oil
1/4 tsp kalonji, pounded roughly
1 tsp cumin seeds
2 medium onions
1 tsp pounded ginger
3 fresh green chillies, chopped
3 Tablespoon cashew nut powder
1/2 cup tomato puree
2 Tablespoon tomato paste
2 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp chilli powder
270 ml low fat yogurt
4 pieces tandoori chicken, shredded ( Refer to Clean Eating Tandoori Chicken recipe)
2 Tablespoon coriander leaves
2 tsp garam masala
A handful of almonds, roasted
-Heat up some olive oil in a saucepan until hot.
-Add onion seeds, cumin seeds, onion, ginger and green chillies (IN THIS ORDER). Fry until fragrant.
-Lower the heat.
-Add cashewnut powder. Still mixture until cashewnut powder turns brown.
-Add tomato puree and paste. Cook for 2-5 mins.
-Add the coriander
powder, cumin and chilli powder and yogurt.
-Mix and simmer for 1 min.
-Add chicken and simmer for a few mins.
-Turn off the heat and add garam masala.
- Add coriander
leaves and cover pot to leave flavours infuse.
-Add chopped roasted almonds before serving.
