Amazing Allergy-Friendly Butter Chicken
This amazing allergy-friendly butter chicken recipe brings everyone to the table, no matter whether the family eats dairy, nightshade, gluten or/and meat-free. Just real food, real good!
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Servings: 4
Equipment
- Food Processor ideally
- 1-2 Large Pot(s)
- Air Fryer or Oven ideally for vegan recipe version
Ingredients
Hidden Vegetable Sauce Base
- 125 g Pumpkin
- 75 g Carrots
- 75 g Sweet Potato (replace with pumpkin to reduce starch)
- 100 g Zucchini (peel if you have a super fuzzy child)
- 125 g Cauliflower
- 100 g Brown Onion (omit if allium intolerant or replace with carrot or red capsicum)
- 1-2 cloves Garlic (omit allium intolerant)
- 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
Sauce
- 140 g Tomato Paste (omit if nightshade intolerant - see notes)
- 175 g Passata (3/4 cup) (omit if nightshade intolerant - see notes)
- 1 tin Coconut Cream (400g)
- 1/2 tsp Ground Ginger
- 1/2 tsp Ground Turmeric
- 1/2 tsp Ground Coriander
- 1 tbsp Garam Masala
- 1 tbsp Curry Powder
- 1/2-1 tsp Sea Salt
- Pepper
Chicken
- 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
- 1000 g Chicken Thigh, chopped
Vegan "Chicken"
- 2 tbsp MCT Oil or Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, melted
- 3 tbsp Corn Starch (GF) (use 2tbsp of coconut flour for low arb/low starch)
- 500 g tofu (if allergic to soy, see notes)
- salt, pepper
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Instructions
- Peel (if necessary) the vegetables and cut into small chuncks. Place them into a food processor and process into a large crumb.
- Add the coconut oil to a pot and gently fry the coarsely chopped vegetables until soft.
- Now add all the sauce ingredients and spices and gently boil for about 15 minutes until all the vegetables are soft.
- In the meantime cut the chicken thighs into small chunks and fry in coconut oil until slightly browned and just cooked through. If serving with basmati or jasmin riuce, boil your rice now.
- Add the additional coconut oil (this is potional but will create that buttery mouthfeel of traditional butter chicken recipes) to the sauce. Puree the sauce super smooth or leave as it.
- Add the sauce to the fried chicken or, if doing the vegan version, add the vegan chicken chunks to the sauce.NOTE: if adding the vegan chicken chunks to the sauce, you may want to add some chicken or vegetable broth as the chunks will thichen the sauce.