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Instant Pot Quick Butter Chicken

Chicken, tofu and cauliflower cooked in a pan and spiced with ginger and curry powder for a South Asian dish. It comes to the table with either.

30 min · Serves 4 · Medium

Serves
4

Ingredients

Time
Cook 30 min · 30 min total
Difficulty
medium
  1. 1

    Instapot on sauté. Add oil. Wait till warm. Add onion, wait till soft. Add ginger & spice powders, wait till fragrant, about 30 seconds. Instapot off.

    1 min
  2. 2

    Add water or chicken stock, scrape sides. Add tomato sauce. Add Cauliflower, chicken, tofu, butter.

  3. 3

    Instapot pressure cook HIGH 10 minutes. Allow slow release (10 minutes). Remove chicken cut into bite sized pieces, put back in pot.

  4. 4

    Add cream or coconut milk. Let cool a bit then add yogurt. Stir, serve with either: nan, rice. (See recipe for home made nan).

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