Chicken Makhani

BEST INDIAN DISH IMAGINABLE!!!!!!!

After this dish, I have no idea how I'll go back to college and be happy with my food. The dining hall food is no match for home cooked Indian food.

FYI, "makhani" means "buttery", and there really isn't that much butter here but the taste is certainly amazing!

Ingredients:
chicken thighs, skinned and fat removed and cut into bit-sized pieces (keep the bones)
some tomato base: paste, puree, diced, actual tomatoes, whatever is in your fridge!
salt and pepper: ~2 tsp of each
2 heaping Tbs. Patok's spicy ginger and garlic paste
1.5 tsp. cumin seeds
1 tsp. minced ginger
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 onion, finely chopped
red chili powder
garam masala
coriander powder
water
green chilies, to taste
~1 cup fat-free half and half
1/2 stick butter

Directions:
1. Marinade chicken with S&P and 1 Tbs. spicy ginger and garlic paste.

2. Saute chicken in a saucepan in EVOO until it is mostly cooked. Remove chicken from the saucepan and set aside for later use. DO NOT CLEAN UP THE SAUCEPAN! You want that yummy chicken grease to flavor your sauce.

3. Add some more EVOO, if necessary. Add cumin seeds. Once the simmer of the cumin seeds reduces, add the minced garlic and ginger.

4. Add the onions and the other heaping Tbs. of spicy ginger and garlic paste. Saute until the onions have reduced.

5. Add the tomato base of your choice (I sliced up some tomatoes and then added some tomato paste) and red chili powder, garam masala, and coriander powder. Add water so a sauce can be formed.

6. Add green chilies.
7. Pour the contents of the saucepan into a blender and blend them until you have a uniform color. The color changes to a lighter red, for some reason.
8. Melt a half a stick of butter in the saucepan. Once this is done, add the sauce back to the saucepan. Stir in half and half and some more salt (to taste) and let the sauce come to a bubbling simmer.

9. Add the chicken, again, stirring in and letting the sauce come to a bubbling simmer.

10. Taste the sauce. It should be somewhat thick and creamy. If it is not, that means you added too much water!
11. Serve over rice. God, this is so amazing, I can taste it writing this entry and I am getting hungry!