Butter Chicken
Butter Chicken

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Butter Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Butter Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Butter chicken originated in a Delhi restaurant when the chef was looking for a way to serve unsold tandoori chicken from the night before. He created a mild tomato curry spiced with cinnamon. Butter chicken is a great, ever-evolving, cross-continental dish found in Delhi, London, New York, Perth and most points in between.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
  1. Get Marinade
  2. Take chicken thigh
  3. Take plain yoghurt
  4. Take minced garlic
  5. Make ready minced ginger
  6. Make ready garam masala
  7. Prepare turmeric
  8. Get ground cumin
  9. Prepare red chilli powder
  10. Prepare salt
  11. Get Sauce
  12. Get oil
  13. Take ghee
  14. Make ready onion, diced
  15. Take minced garlic
  16. Make ready minced ginger
  17. Prepare coriander
  18. Prepare garam masala
  19. Make ready ground cumin
  20. Make ready crushed tomatoes
  21. Prepare salt
  22. Take red chilli powder
  23. Prepare heavy cream
  24. Prepare sugar

Butter Chicken is an easy recipe that's full of savory flavor with warm spices. This mild curry has tender chunks of chicken simmered in a creamy spiced curry sauce. It's quick to make with chicken, tomato sauce, cream, and handful of pantry spices. Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular curries in the world and yet happens to be one of the easiest!

Instructions to make Butter Chicken:
  1. Combine all marinade ingredients in a large gallon plastic bag, mixing thoroughly. Chop chicken into bite size pieces and marinate overnight.
  2. Heat oil in large saucepan, then add chicken. Stir fry for about five minutes, then remove from pan and set aside
  3. In same pan, heat ghee and add onions, cooking until they sweat. Add garlic and ginger, saute until aromatic.
  4. Add coriander, garam masala, and cumin and saute for a minute, then add tomatoes, chilli powder, and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes.
  5. Remove pan from heat, then use a stick blender or regular blender to puree sauce.
  6. Return blended sauce to pan, then add cream and sugar. Return chicken and juices to sauce and combine. Simmer for another 10 minutes, then serve.

No hunting down hard to find ingredients, this is a Chef recipe that makes the most incredible curry sauce. The chicken is incredibly tender and injected with flavour from a yogurt marinade, and the Butter Chicken sauce is so ridiculously delicious, you'll want it on tap! WHY IS IT CALLED BUTTER CHICKEN. Created by Kundan Lal Gujral, you may notice that Butter Chicken (known as murgh makhani — chicken with butter), is similar to British tikka masala. Prepared in a buttery gravy with the addition of cream gives the curry sauce a silky smooth rich texture.

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