Butter Chicken
Butter Chicken

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Butter Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Butter Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Learn how to make Butter Chicken, a heavenly chicken gravy recipe by Chef Varun Inamdar. Butter Chicken is probably one of the most popular Indian chicken. Butter chicken also known as chicken makhani is one of the most popular, lip smacking Chunks of grilled chicken (tandoori chicken) cooked in a smooth buttery & creamy tomato based gravy is.

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

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! 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. Share this with your friends via There is a very good reason why butter chicken is one of the most loved Indian dishes: it's pretty darn delicious.

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.

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. A delicious chicken dish that can be made as hot or as mild as you wish - a perfect meal for curry lovers who want to keep it simple. Chicken Makhani is one of my favorite Indian dishes. It is a full flavored dish that complements the chicken well.

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