Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, murgh makhani - butter chicken 🐓. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Murgh Makhani also known as Butter Chicken is a spicy tomato based curry cooked with chicken. UK curry lovers can't seem to get enough of Chicken Tikka Masala; the one thing that gets the appetite going for most Indians undoubtedly has to be 'Butter Chicken' or Murgh Makhani. This is a simple home version of butter chicken, also known as 'murgh' or 'chicken makhani,' a popular dish in Indian restaurants.
Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓 is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓 is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook murgh makhani - butter chicken 🐓 using 33 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:
- Take For marination
- Get 2 tbsp yoghurt
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Take 2-3 cloves garlic (paste form)
- Prepare 2 tbsp ginger paste
- Make ready 1 tsp garam masala
- Prepare 1 tsp chicken masala
- Prepare 1 tsp coriander-cumin powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp red chilli powder (it has to be kashmiri red chilli powder)
- Get 400 g boneless chopped chicken
- Take For the gravy
- Get 3-4 tbsp butter
- Take 2 tomatoes (roughly chopped)
- Prepare 2 medium sized onions (roughly chopped)
- Get 2 green chillis (roughly chopped)
- Get 5-8 cashew nuts
- Prepare 3-4 green cardamon pods
- Take 3-4 cloves
- Take 5-6 curry leaves
- Prepare 2 cinnamon sticks
- Make ready 2 tbsp garam masala
- Make ready 2 tbsp chicken masala
- Take 3 tbsp red chilli powder (Kashmiri)
- Take Salt (as per taste)
- Make ready 1 tsp kasuri methi (fenugreek)
- Prepare 2 tbsp thick cream
- Get About 1 cup water for the liquid puree
- Get 1 tsp sugar (you can substitute it with honey - but not too much)
- Prepare For garnishing
- Prepare Some coriander leaves - chopped tiny (optional)
- Prepare 1 pinch fenugreek
- Take 1 tsp cream
In India this dish is usually made with bone-in chicken and outside of India boneless. This rich, buttery, creamy chicken needs no introduction. Murgh Makhani is not the same thing as the Chicken Tikka Masala,; both the recipes look similar and uses marinated grilled chicken in the sauce, but the base sauce for the two recipes are quite different. Creamy, tangy and rich tomato sauce gravy coats the marinated and fried chicken pieces to become this indulgence of Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani, that is a favorite among any.
Instructions to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:
- For marinating: The process can go through two marination steps, but I just did one. - Take a bowl, add in the chopped chicken pieces. You can choose to go for chicken with bone as this dish can be boneless or with bone. Add ginger paste, garlic paste, garam masala, chicken masala, red chilli powder, salt and lemon juice. Mix well and set it aside for 20-30minutes. I set it aside for 1 hour, you can leave it overnight too (in the fridge 😉)
- To make the tandoor chicken: - After marination, take a frying pan. Pour in some oil enough to fry the chicken but not too much. Place the chicken pieces in the pan and turn them to the other side when you think it might have cooked for quite some time (may be about 7 minutes). Use low flame. Keep turning them until they are brownish (light brown). Once ready, take the pieces out into a bowl.
- Use the same frying pan, add in cardamon pods, cinnamon sticks, cloves, curry leaves and sauté. Add ginger garlic paste. Once you start smelling the garlic, add in the onions. Let it fry for some minutes, all using medium flame. Add in the chopped tomatoes, green chillis and butter, you can add tomato puree too. Add garam masala, chilli powder, chicken masala, salt, cashew nuts and water. Mix, cover and let it cook for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, let it cool.
- Pour the mixture in step 3 into a grinder and grind. Once it's all mixed and ground, sieve it in order to get rid of the coarse spices and tomato skin/seeds. Also remember butter chicken gravy has to be velvety smooth. You can use a hand grinder too but a mixer grinder is the best choice.
- Add butter 😁to the same frying pan. Add some garlic paste. I used grated garlic (last minute 😁). Pour in the liquid puree and let it cook for about 20minutes. Add in the tandoor chicken pieces, sugar, coriander leaves and salt if it's not as per your taste yet. Sprinkle in fenugreek, and add in thick cream. Stir and let it cook for another 10 minutes
- Serve hot and eat quickly 😜. For plating, take a bowl and fill it with gravy and the chicken pieces on top. Take some bit more gravy and pour it over the chicken pieces. Sprinkle fenugreek and coriander leaves. Eat with Naan or rice.
There is a very good reason why butter chicken is one of the most loved Indian dishes: it's pretty darn delicious. This authentic Indian butter chicken (murg makhani) recipe is the real deal with a traditional blend of common Indian spices, yogurt, and butter. Butter chicken or murgh makhani, is an Indian dish where chicken that is marinated in a yogurt based marinade filled with aromatic spices is served in a buttery and creamy tomato based sauce. The chicken is normally cooked in a tandoor but you can just as easily grill it or cook it up any way you like. Butter Chicken, or Murgh Makhani, is a classic Indian chicken recipe made with tender juicy chicken pieces cooked in creamy, mildly spiced tomato sauce.
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