Steps to Make Butter Chicken in 20 Minutes at Home

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Butter Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Butter Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 29 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:

1. Take 3 Tablespoons Butter
2. Take Water as required
3. Prepare 1 Cup Cream
4. Make ready 1 Cup Milk
5. Take 1 pinch Qasoori methi
6. Get Green chilies as required
7. Take Coriander leaves as required
8. Make ready Chicken Gravy
9. Get 2 Tablespoons Butter
10. Prepare Cinnamon Stick (darchini) 1
11. Take 3 Cardamon (choti Elaichi)
12. Prepare 1 Onion Finely chopped
13. Prepare 1 tablespoon Ginger garlic paste
14. Get 4 Green chilies chopped
15. Prepare 1 cup Tomato Paste
16. Prepare to taste Salt
17. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seed
18. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder
19. Get 1 Teaspoon Red chilli powder
20. Prepare 1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
21. Prepare Chicken Marination
22. Take Boneless Chicken Cubes 500 Grams
23. Get 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
24. Prepare 1/2 cup Yoghurt
25. Take 1 Teaspoon Coriander Powder
26. Make ready 1/2 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
27. Take to taste Salt
28. Prepare 1 Teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
29. Take 1/2 Teaspoon Garam Masala Powder

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.

Instructions to make Butter Chicken:

1. Chicken Marination: Add all the marination ingredients in the chicken and let it marinate for 30 to 45 minutes.
2. Add 3 Tablespoons of butter in a pan and add marinated chicken. Let it cook until chicken is done. Set aside for later use.
3. Add Chicken gravy ingredients in a pan except spices and cook for 5 to 6 minutes. Then add all the spices and again cook for 5 to 6 minutes.
4. Add water in the gravy as required. Cover and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
5. Add milk and cream in the gravy. Mix it well. Add cooked chicken. Cook until gravy gets thick.
6. Garnish it with qasoori methi, green chilies and 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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