Butter Chicken
Butter Chicken

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Butter Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.

Butter chicken also known as chicken makhani is one of the most popular, lip smacking and Chunks of grilled chicken (tandoori chicken) cooked in a smooth buttery & creamy tomato based. Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular curries in the world and yet happens to Butter Chicken is one of the few exceptions. I was elated when I discovered a Chef recipe for Butter.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter chicken using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
  1. Get 1 chicken breast (cut in cubes)
  2. Make ready 2 big tomato roughly chopped
  3. Take 1 small onion roughly chopped
  4. Get 2-3 garlic cloves
  5. Prepare 1/2 inch ginger
  6. Take 1 big cardamom
  7. Make ready 1 small cardamom
  8. Prepare 3-4 cloves
  9. Take 1 bay leaf
  10. Take 6-7 cashew nuts
  11. Take 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
  12. Make ready to taste Salt
  13. Get 1 tbsp sugar
  14. Get 1 tsp kasuri methi
  15. Get 2 tbsp butter
  16. Take 1 green chilli slit
  17. Prepare 3-4 tbsp fresh cream
  18. Get 1 cup water
  19. Prepare Marination
  20. Prepare 3-4 tbsp hung yoghurt
  21. Take to taste Salt
  22. Get 2 tbsp oil
  23. Make ready 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
  24. Get 1 fresh lime juice
  25. Get 1 tsp ginger garlic paste

This delicious chicken recipe is also popular by its Hindi name. There is a very good reason why butter chicken is one of the most loved Indian dishes: it's pretty darn delicious. Succulent marinated chicken steeped in a rich and creamy tomato sauce. Butter chicken was first created in India just a few decades ago, and was actually born out of a need to re-purpose unsold chicken.

Instructions to make Butter Chicken:
  1. First marination : Take chicken in a bowl add salt to taste and ginger garlic paste. Mix and keep aside for 10 mins.
  2. Second marination : In another bowl take oil, add kashmiri red chilli powder and mix. Next add hung yoghurt, little salt if required, fresh lime juice and mix well.
  3. Add chicken cubes marinated in step one into second marination. Keep it aside for 10-15.
  4. In a pan take 1 cup water, add tomatoes, onion, ginger, garlic, small and big cardamom, bay leaf, cloves, cashew nuts and kashmiri red chilli powder. Cover in let it cook for 7-10 mins or till the tomatoes are mushy. Keep stirring in between.
  5. After the above pan mix is cool, remove small and big cardamom, cloves and bay leaf out from it.
  6. Next make the puree of the remaining things above and strain the puree to get smooth texture.
  7. In the other pan heat 2 tbsp butter add the slit green chilli, add the strained puree and cook for 3-4 mins.
  8. Add salt as per taste and 1 tbsp sugar and mix. Let it cook for few mins. Keep it aside.
  9. Heat a non-stick pan put 1 tbsp oil and add marinated chicken. Cook for 7-10 mins or untill done. Keep flipping the sides to cook all sides.
  10. Add the chicken pieces to the gravy and cook again on the low flame.
  11. Add kasuri methi and fresh cream. Mix well. Check salt and sugar at this stage. Cook for another 2 minutes.
  12. Garnish with some butter and fresh cream. Serve hot with Roti or rice.

Butter Chicken simmers in a buttery tomato sauce and is punctuated by several special spices and herbs. Skip the Indian takeout and cook up your very own version of the popular dish! 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. This means you now have the lovely buttery tomato-ey sauce ready for the next time you have chicken leftover.

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