Butter chicken
Butter chicken

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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 popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Butter chicken is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter chicken using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter chicken:
  1. Prepare 2 chicken breasts 🐓
  2. Take 1 tbsp garlic paste 🧄
  3. Take 1 tbsp ginger paste 👨🏻‍🦰
  4. Take 1 heaped tsp of paprika
  5. Get 1 tsp salt 🧂
  6. Get Sauce
  7. Prepare 1 onion 🧅
  8. Get 1 tin chopped tomatoes 🍅
  9. Prepare Handful cashew nuts 🥜
  10. Make ready 1 tbsp garam masala
  11. Take 1/2 tsp fenugreek
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp sugar
  13. Get 1 tsp red chilli powder
  14. Prepare 1 tbsp butter 🧈
  15. Make ready 1 tbsp cream
  16. Take Oil
  17. Take Malt vinegar
  18. Make ready Cream
  19. Take Water 💧

No one will believe it's not take-out! Butter chicken is an Indian dish that originated in Delhi. Small pieces of chicken are marinated with spices, ginger, and garlic. They then get cooked until tender in a creamy, mildly spiced.

Instructions to make Butter chicken:
  1. Chop the chicken into chunks
  2. Add the garlic, ginger, paprika and a touch of salt. Marinate and leave for 15 mins.
  3. Add oil to a pan and cook the chicken. Once cooked, transfer the chicken into a bowl for later.
  4. To make the sauce finely chop the onion and add to a pan. Add oil and tsp of butter. Lightly sweat the onions.
  5. Add the chopped tomatoes and cashew nuts. Once mixed add water, malt vinegar, sugar, garam masala and red chilli powder.
  6. Lightly simmer for 15 mins.
  7. Pour the sauce into a blender
  8. Transfer the sauce into a pan using a sieve as the sauce needs to be smooth.
  9. Mix in the butter and cream. Also add the chicken and fenugreek. Let it simmer through
  10. Plate up with rice 🍚 and add a touch of cream to finesse.

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. 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. This means you now have the lovely buttery tomato-ey sauce ready for the next time you have chicken leftover. 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.

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