
Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Butter chicken originated in a Delhi restaurant when the chef was looking for a way to serve unsold tandoori chicken from the night before. He created a mild tomato curry spiced with cinnamon. Butter chicken is prepared with marinated chicken that's first grilled and then served in a rich gravy (a.k.a. curry) made with tomato, butter, and a special spice blend as a base.
Butter Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Butter Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Take 700 gm breast chicken in medium size pieces
- Get 100 gm butter
- Get 4 green chilies slits
- Take 100 gm fresh cream
- Take 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- Make ready 1 teaspoon tandoori masala powder
- Take Salt as per taste
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- Take 300 gm tomato puree (boiled and peeled)
- Take 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Take 4 green cardamom
- Prepare 1 mace
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon kasuri methi
- Take 1 tablespoon fresh chopped coriander leaves
Butter Chicken is an easy recipe that's full of savory flavor with warm spices. This mild curry has tender chunks of chicken simmered in a creamy spiced curry sauce. It's quick to make with chicken, tomato sauce, cream, and handful of pantry spices. Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular curries in the world and yet happens to be one of the easiest!
Steps to make Butter Chicken:
- In a mixing bowl, mix tandoori masala powder, red chilli powder, ginger garlic paste and salt.
- Add the raw chicken pieces to the marinade and mix well. Keep it in the refrigerator overnight or minimum 6 hours. Heat half the quantity of butter in wok.
- Add green cardamom and mace and saute for 30sec.
- Pour tomato puree in wok and saute for 2-3 minutes. Add cumin powder and garam masala powder, mix well.
- Add the prepared chicken, remaining butter, fresh cream, sliced green chillies and crushed fenugreek leaves. Saute for 3-4 minutes and let the chicken cook. Cook till chicken is done.
- Take it in large bowl and garnish with coriander leaves - Serve hot with rice or naan.
No hunting down hard to find ingredients, this is a Chef recipe that makes the most incredible curry sauce. The chicken is incredibly tender and injected with flavour from a yogurt marinade, and the Butter Chicken sauce is so ridiculously delicious, you'll want it on tap! It's simplified and cooked all in one pan and goes great with a side of rice or naan! Ever since moving to Alexandria, Virginia we've been in luck with all the Indian, Pakistani, and Aghani restaurants around us. The sauce was good but the chicken (we used chicken breast) was a bit chewy.
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