Easiest Way to Make Butter Chicken 😍😍 in 30 Minutes for Beginners

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken 😍😍. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 prepared with marinated chicken that's first grilled and then served in a rich gravy (a.k.a. curry) made with tomato, butter, and a special spice blend as a base.

Butter Chicken 😍😍 is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Butter Chicken 😍😍 is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have butter chicken 😍😍 using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken 😍😍:

1. Make ready Oil - 2 tblspn
2. Prepare For Marination:
3. Make ready 1/2 kg Chicken -
4. Prepare 1/2 cup Curd / Yoghurt -
5. Take 1 tsp Chilli powder -
6. Prepare Garam Masala Powder
7. Take 1 tsp
8. Take Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Salt to taste
9. Get For Masala:
10. Get Butter - 3 tblspn
11. Take Oil- 2 tblspn
12. Take 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
13. Prepare 2 tbspn Ginger Garlic Paste -
14. Prepare 1 pinch Red Food Colouring -
15. Take 1 tsp Chilli powder -
16. Take 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder -
17. Prepare Sugar - 1.5 tsp or to taste Salt to taste Tomato - 2 large pureed
18. Take Cream - 1/4 cup (I mixed up 1/4 cup milk with 2 tsp cornflour)
19. Prepare Kasuri methi leaves - 1 tblspn
20. Take Cashew nut paste -1tblspn
21. Prepare as needed Water

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! 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!

Steps to make Butter Chicken 😍😍:

1. Take chicken and all the marination ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Leave it to marinate for 15 to 30 mins.
2. Now heat 2 tblspn oil in a frying pan and place the marinated chicken in a single layer and cook them on high heat for 5 mins or till the chicken is charred. Flip them over and cook again till the chicken is charred. Switch off the flame and set it aside.
3. Now in a kadai. Add oil and butter and let them heat up. - - Add in cumin seeds and let them sizzle. - - Add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min. - - Add in red food colouring, chilli powder, garam masala powder, salt and sugar and mix well and cook for 30 sec. - - Add in tomato puree and mix well. Cover and cook for 5 mins to 8 mins till oil separates from it.
4. Now add in required amount of water and bring that to a boil. I used 2 cups of water. - - Add in grilled chicken pieces and mix well. Simmer the flame and cover the kadai. Cook on a low heat for 15 to 20 mins till the chicken is tender and juicy.
5. Once the chicken is cooked add in the 1/4 cup of cream and cashew nut paste. - Simmer it for a min. - - Now crush in the kasuri methi leaves into the gravy andmix well. Simmer again for couple of mins. - - Switch off the flame and add coriander leaves.

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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