Buttery Creamy Chicken

Chicken Marination Ingredients:

1 kg boneless chicken (small pieces)
2 tbsps ghee (melted) 
2 tbsp yogurt
4 tbsps fresh cream 
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
Few drops of yellow food colour
1 tbsp aamchoor (I did not have amchoor so I used chaat masala)
Salt (according to taste)
1 tsp red chilli powder (or to taste)
1 tsp paprika powder (you can skip this ingredient if you wish to)
1 tsp kasoori methi
1tsp each- whole spices: zeera, dhania, 1 large elaichi, 3 green elachis, 1 piece darchini, a few strands of mace, a few scrapes of nutmeg, 1 small starnanise. (Dry roast and grind) - USE 1 FULL TBSP.

Gravy Ingredients:

Upto 1/4 cup oil
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 can / pack of tomato puree
1 onion (pureed)
Salt to taste
2 fresh green chillis, slit..
1/2 cup fresh cream 
some butter (to be used while baking - sum small cubes of butter)

Directions: 

Step one:

Mix all ingredients for the marination and let it marinade either overnight or an hour if in a rush..

Step two:
Heat oil. Add ginger garlic paste on low heat, add chicken..fry.. once golden remove chicken.

In the same pan, add onion puree. Cook the onion paste till it dries out a bit. Add tomato puree and the remaining marination. Cook and add slit chillies + chicken. Cook on low heat. When almost done, add cream. Mix in well and let it cook for one minute. Close heat. Cover and bake in preheated oven of 200 C for 5mins. Uncover and chop butter, spread on top and bake for a few more mins.

As soon as the top of chicken turns to a beautiful baked golden color, its done. 

Garnish with Coriander leaves...and serve with hot naans :)

P.S: You can totally skip the oven baking part with the butter , it still tastes yummy :)

Happy Eating :)