Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Butter Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Butter Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have butter chicken using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Get 1 chicken breast (cut in cubes)
- Make ready 2 big tomato roughly chopped
- Prepare 1 small onion roughly chopped
- Get 2-3 garlic cloves
- Make ready 1/2 inch ginger
- Make ready 1 big cardamom
- Get 1 small cardamom
- Make ready 3-4 cloves
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 6-7 cashew nuts
- Make ready 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- Take to taste Salt
- Get 1 tbsp sugar
- Get 1 tsp kasuri methi
- Take 2 tbsp butter
- Get 1 green chilli slit
- Get 3-4 tbsp fresh cream
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Take Marination
- Take 3-4 tbsp hung yoghurt
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 2 tbsp oil
- Take 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- Get 1 fresh lime juice
- Take 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
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Steps to make Butter Chicken:
- First marination : Take chicken in a bowl add salt to taste and ginger garlic paste. Mix and keep aside for 10 mins.
- 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.
- Add chicken cubes marinated in step one into second marination. Keep it aside for 10-15.
- 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.
- After the above pan mix is cool, remove small and big cardamom, cloves and bay leaf out from it.
- Next make the puree of the remaining things above and strain the puree to get smooth texture.
- In the other pan heat 2 tbsp butter add the slit green chilli, add the strained puree and cook for 3-4 mins.
- Add salt as per taste and 1 tbsp sugar and mix. Let it cook for few mins. Keep it aside.
- 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.
- Add the chicken pieces to the gravy and cook again on the low flame.
- Add kasuri methi and fresh cream. Mix well. Check salt and sugar at this stage. Cook for another 2 minutes.
- Garnish with some butter and fresh cream. Serve hot with Roti or rice.
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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