Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Butter Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Butter Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Butter chicken or murg makhani (pronounced [mʊrg ˈmək.kʰə.niː]) is a dish of chicken in a spiced tomato, butter and cream sauce. It originated in the Indian subcontinent. Learn how to make Butter Chicken, a heavenly chicken gravy recipe by Chef Varun Inamdar.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 25 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Make ready For the chicken marinade:
- Prepare 28 oz (800 g) boneless and skinless chicken thighs or breasts cut into bite-sized pieces
- Take 1/2 cup plain yoghurt
- Take 1 1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
- Make ready 1 tablespoon minced ginger (or finely grated)
- Make ready 2 teaspoons garam masala
- Take 1 teaspoon turmeric
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Take 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Take For the sauce:
- Make ready 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Make ready 2 tablespoons ghee (or 1 tbs butter + 1 tbs oil)
- Prepare 1 large onion, sliced or chopped
- Take 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- Prepare 1 tablespoon ginger, minced or finely grated
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons garam masala
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- Prepare 14 oz (400 g) crushed tomatoes
- Take 1 teaspoon red chili powder (adjust to your taste preference)
- Prepare 1 1/4 teaspoons salt (or to taste)
- Take 1 cup heavy or thickened cream (or evaporated milk to save calories)
- Prepare 1 tablespoon sugar
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon kasoori methi (or dried fenugreek leaves)
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Steps to make Butter Chicken:
- In a bowl, combine chicken with all of the ingredients for the chicken marinade; let marinate for 30 minutes to an hour (or overnight if time allows).
- Heat oil in a large skillet or pot over medium-high heat. When sizzling, add chicken pieces in batches of two or three, making sure not to crowd the pan. Fry until browned for only 3 minutes on each side. Set aside and keep warm. (You will finish cooking the chicken in the sauce.)
- Heat butter or ghee in the same pan. Fry the onions until they start to sweat (about 6 minutes) while scraping up any browned bits stuck on the bottom of the pan.
- Add garlic and ginger and sauté for 1 minute until fragrant, then add ground coriander, cumin and garam masala. Let cook for about 20 seconds until fragrant, while stirring occasionally.
- Add crushed tomatoes, chili powder and salt. Let simmer for about 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally until sauce thickens and becomes a deep brown red color.
- Remove from heat, scoop mixture into a blender and blend until smooth. You may need to add a couple tablespoons of water to help it blend (up to 1/4 cup). Work in batches depending on the size of your blender.
- Pour the pureed sauce back into the pan. Stir the cream, sugar and crushed kasoori methi (or fenugreek leaves) through the sauce. Add the chicken with juices back into the pan and cook for an additional 8-10 minutes until chicken is cooked through and the sauce is thick and bubbling.
- Garnish with chopped cilantro and serve with fresh, hot peas pulao and fresh homemade Naan!
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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. 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. 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. Authentic butter chicken is a labor of love.
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