Murgh Makhani Butter Tofu
butter tofu Indian murgh makhani food
Recipe taken from: Youtube - Videojug - Murgh Makhni
Its for chicken so lets adapt for tofu…
Ingredients
For the chicken/tofu
- 500g chicken/tofu
- 50g garlic and ginger paste
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 65ml natural yogurt
- 0.5 tsp kashmiri chilli powder
- 0.5 tbsp vegetable oil
- 0.5 tsp garam masala powder
Sauce
- 40ml vegetable oil
- 5 cardamon pods
- 5 cloves
- 4 bay leaves
- 6 green chillies
- 15g root ginger finely chopped
- 750g of fresh tomatoes
- 0.5 tsp kashmiri chilli powder
- 75g cashew nuts
- 1 tbsp of honey
- 0.5 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tsp kasoori methi (powdered fenugreek leaves)
- 50g butter
- 60ml single cream
Method
Chicken/tofu
wash chicken/tofu season chicken/tofu - add ginger and garlic paste add yogurt mix and chilli powder add to chicken add 1tbsp of veg oil chill for 4 hours grill 10 mins / other recipes fry
Sauce
- Heat 40 ml of vegetable oil and add 4 cinnamon sticks, 5 cardamoms, 5 cloves, 4 bay leaves, and stir for two minutes.
- Add the ginger, chillies(whole), and tomatoes. Stir for 2 mins on medium heat
- Add 100ml of water and simmer for 25 mins
- Once Simmered, remove the whole spices and blend the remaining in a food processor. Once blended, strain through a colander and bring back to boil. Add water if needed (ladle full).
- powder cashew nuts 50g in a food processor and add some water to make thickish paste
- add 1tbsp tomato paste and nuts and a bit of water to the sauce
- add 0.5tsp chilli powder and honey 1tbsp
- stir for 3 mins
- add butter 50g, salt (couple of pinches), and 1tsp of fenugreek powder.
- simmer for 20 mins
In a separate pan
- chop last 25g of cashew nuts
- add to pan with butter (little bit)
- add chicken/tofu
- fry for 3 mins
- add sauce to tofu and add cream 60ml
- stir for 3 mins whilst simmering
Pictures
This is what it should vaguely look like… I also added 2 white onions to the sauce base.
