Recipe: Perfect Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken. 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 (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular curries in the world and yet happens to Butter Chicken is one of the few exceptions.

The story goes that the owner of Moti Mahal restaurant Murgh = chicken, Makhani = buttery. It is more popular outside of India than it is in India. Butter Chicken or Murg Makhani (Hindi: मुर्ग़ मक्खनी) (pronounced [mʊrg ˈmək.kʰə.niː]) is a dish, originating in the Indian subcontinent, of chicken in a mildly spiced tomato sauce. You can have Butter Chicken using 35 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Butter Chicken

1. Prepare of For Chicken Tikka Marination:(Part 1).
2. Prepare 300 g of Skinless and Boneless chicken cubes.
3. You need of Salt as per requirement.
4. It's 1 tbs of lemon juice.
5. It's 1 1/2 tbs of Ginger-Garlic paste.
6. Prepare of For Chicken Tikka Marination: (Part 2).
7. Prepare 5 tbs of oil.
8. It's 1 1/2 tbs of Kashmiri Red chilli powder.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of Hung Yoghurt (yoghurt with no water).
10. You need of Salt as per requirement.
11. You need 1 tbs of lemon juice.
12. Prepare of For Butter Chicken Gravy:.
13. You need 1 cup of water.
14. It's 1 of tomato (medium).
15. You need 1 of small roughly chopped Onion.
16. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
17. It's 1 of small cinamon Stick.
18. It's 2-3 of Cloves.
19. Prepare 2 of small green cardamom.
20. Prepare 3 of garlic cloves.
21. You need 1 of small ginger piece.
22. You need 1 tbs of Kashmiri red chilli powder.
23. It's 150 g of Butter (unsalted).
24. You need 5 of chasew nuts (non roasted).
25. You need of salt.
26. It's 6 of make sure to check step.
27. You need of For Cooking Gravy:.
28. You need 1 tsp of Chopped ginger.
29. It's 1 tsp of chopped green chillies.
30. It's of Salt as per requirement.
31. It's of Kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder).
32. It's 1 tsp of Kashmiri red chilli powder.
33. You need 1 tbs of sugar.
34. You need Half of cup thick heavy cream.
35. You need of Chopped Green onion/coriander leaves for garnish.

Butter chicken originated from using leftover dry tandoori chicken and giving it moisture with a creamy spiced tomato sauce — plus some butter, and we have butter chicken. Butter Chicken is one of my top five favorite Indian recipes. Chicken Makhani is one of my favorite Indian dishes. It is a full flavored dish that complements the chicken well.

Butter Chicken step by step

1. Firstly, Marinate the Chicken in a bowl by adding salt, lemon juice and ginger garlic paste and set aside for 15 - 20 minutes..
2. While the First step of chicken marination is done, keep aside and Take a cooking pot And add Water, rougly chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, bay leaves, cinamon, cloves, green cardamom, ginger and garlic, kashmiri red chilli powder, salt and quarter of 150g butter. Let it cook till tomato gets mashy. Off the stove and let it get warm..
3. Take a bowl, first add oil and then add the Kashmiri red chilli powder. Mix it well, since the proper colour of the chilli powder will be shown through oil. After, add the hung yoghurt and whisk it well. Add salt and lemon juice. Whisk it nicely..
4. Once the First Step of Chicken Marination completes 15-20 minutes, take each chicken pieces squeeze it to remove excess water and add it in the bowl of Marination part 2. Do it one by one. Mix it well and set aside for 15-20 minutes..
5. Take the cooked tomato gravy and blend it into fine paste. And after blending, strain the gravy to remove the tomato skin or spices if any. Because we need a fine smooth paste..
6. Heat stove, and add the rest buttet into the cooking pot. Add chopped ginger and green chillies, just lightly saute..
7. Add the blended puree and let it cook for 5 to 8 minutes..
8. While the puree is cooking. Heat a grilling pan or any normal pan (Make sure its a nonstick pan). Add 1 tbs of oil. The pan should be hot enough with medium high flame, so that the chicken doesn't leave any water and then shallow fry it. Don't flip the chicken unless one side is completely done and has burn marks. Do it till the chicken is cooked..
9. Check the cooking gravy in mean time. Add salt if needed, kasuri methi powder (dried fenugreek leaves powder), sugar and Chicken. Cook for 5 minutes..
10. Finally add the thick heavy cream and mix it. Garnish with chopped green onion/coriander leaves. Serve with chapati or Naan..

All Reviews for Chicken Makhani (Indian Butter Chicken). 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 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. There is a very good reason why butter chicken is one of the most loved Indian dishes: it's pretty darn delicious.