
Creamy butter chicken with black mustard naans
Prep
20 mins
Cook
20 mins
Servings
6
Difficulty
Medium
This creamy butter chicken with black mustard naans is my go to dinner when I want something restaurant quality but don't have much time. The korma paste does the heavy lifting, so you're really just building flavour from there with yogurt, cream, and fresh ginger. I love that ginger brings natural anti inflammatory benefits while adding that warming kick to the sauce. What makes this meal brilliant is that the naans bake while your chicken simmers, so everything comes together in about forty minutes total. It's comfort food that feels fancy but honestly couldn't be simpler, and it costs far less than ordering takeaway.
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Ingredients
- 200 gramsjar korma curry paste
- 150 gramstub natural yogurt
- 4chicken breast fillets
- 75 gramsbutter
- 2 cmginger(grated)
- 1red chilli(deseeded and finely chopped)
- 1onion(sliced)
- 1 tbspcirio tomato purée
- 300 mlsdouble cream
- 28 gramscoriander(chopped)
- 2 tspcaster sugar
- 7 gramssachet dried yeast
- 150 mlsmilk
- 450 gramsplain flour
- 1 tbspblack mustard seeds
- 1 tspsalt
- 1 tspbaking powder
- 2 tbspvegetable oil
- 1medium british blacktail free range egg(beaten)
- 3 tbspvegetable oil(for frying)
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Instructions
- 1
Mix the korma paste and 2 tbsp of yogurt together. Add the chicken, mixing to coat evenly. Marinate in the fridge for 1 hour.
- 2
To make the naans, place 1 tsp sugar and the yeast in a small bowl. Mix in the milk and leave for 4-5 minutes until frothy.
- 3
Place the flour, mustard seeds, salt, baking powder and remaining tsp sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the oil, egg, remaining yogurt from the curry recipe and yeast mixture, and mix to a dough. Using the mixer’s dough hook, knead for 10 minutes. Transfer to an oiled bowl, cover and leave for 45 minutes until doubled in size.
- 4
Melt the butter in a large frying pan, shake off any excess marinade from the chicken and fry for 5 minutes, turning halfway through. Add the ginger, chilli, onion, tomato purée and remaining marinade mix, and cook for a further 5 minutes.
- 5
Pour in the cream, cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through with no pink meat, stirring occasionally. Add the coriander.
- 6
Meanwhile, knock back the naan dough and divide into 8 pieces. Roll each out on a floured surface to a rough oval shape, around 12cm x 20cm. Heat a little oil in a large frying pan and fry the naans, 2 at a time, for 2 minutes each side until golden.
- 7
Serve the naan bread with the creamy butter chicken.
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