Butter Chicken
Butter Chicken

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Butter Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Butter Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Butter chicken is a great, ever-evolving, cross-continental dish found in Delhi, London, New York, Perth and most points in between. In its purest form, it is yogurt-and-spice-marinated chicken dressed in a velvety red bath comprising butter, onions, ginger and tomatoes scented with garam masala, cumin and turmeric, with a cinnamon tang. Butter chicken originated in a Delhi restaurant when the chef was looking for a way to serve unsold tandoori chicken from the night before.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
  1. Make ready For the Chicken:
  2. Take 700 grams chicken
  3. Make ready 1 lemon juice
  4. Make ready 5-6 tbsp thick yougurt
  5. Prepare 1 tsp red chilli powder
  6. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
  7. Get 1 1/4 tsp salt
  8. Take 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
  9. Take 2 tsp coconut flakes
  10. Get 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  11. Prepare For the paste:
  12. Get 2 tomatoes
  13. Get 1 big onion
  14. Take 3-4 green chillies
  15. Get 3-4 cloves garlic
  16. Take 2 inch ginger
  17. Take For the gravy:
  18. Make ready 1 cup onion tomatoes paste (from above)
  19. Take 1/2 cup fresh cream
  20. Take 2 tbsp mayonnaise
  21. Get 5-6 tbsp butter

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! 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.

Steps to make Butter Chicken:
  1. First of all marinate the chicken with all the ingredients given above.
  2. In a wok add 2 tbsp butter and add the marinated chicken.
  3. Cook on medium low heat for 5 minutes and then on medium high heat till the water evaporates.
  4. Meanwhile make onion tomatoes paste by adding all the ingredients and blend them well.
  5. Add the onion tomatoes paste in the chicken when thick bubbles appear in the wok.
  6. Cook for about 10 minutes. Beat nicely the cream and mayonnaise and add to the chicken.
  7. Cover and cook for another 10 minutes and add 2 tbsp of butter to it.
  8. Cook on low flame till all the butter appears on the gravy.
  9. Serve hot with lemon and garlic naan.

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. 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 in luck with all the Indian, Pakistani, and Aghani restaurants around us.

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