Steps to Make Butter chicken in 10 Minutes for Beginners

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a 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 favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Butter chicken is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken using 24 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter chicken:

1. Get chicken cut into cubes
2. Make ready Chicken marinade-
3. Take curd
4. Take minced garlic and ginger
5. Take garam masala
6. Prepare turmeric powder
7. Take cumin powder
8. Get salt
9. Make ready kashmiri chilli powder
10. Make ready gravy-
11. Prepare butter
12. Prepare oil
13. Get large onion chopped finely
14. Take ginger garlic chopped
15. Prepare garam masala (all the masalas or powder)
16. Get cumin
17. Prepare coriander seeds
18. Take tomatoes
19. Make ready kashmiri chilli powder
20. Prepare fresh cream
21. Get sugar
22. Get Salt
23. Get Coriander leaves for garnish
24. Take Tomato ketchup

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. Mix all the ingredients in the marinade section to free a lump-free paste.
2. Coat it with the chicken pieces and let it rest overnight in the freezer.
3. Next day in a grill, or in a pan or oven fry it till browns on each side.. Around 5 mins each side. I did it in oven
4. In a large kadhai. Heat the butter with oil and start frying the onion.. Add the ginger-garlic once the onion starts to turn transparent. Add the coriander, cumin and garam masala and wait till nice aroma comes out.
5. Now add the chopped tomatoes and salt and red chilli powder and fry it till the water dries.
6. Remove from heat and grind it to a silky smooth paste in a grinder. Add the ketchup to it and grind to smoothly.
7. Pour the gravy back to kadhai and add water as required and add cream and sugar to it. Also add the salt. Balance the gravy as per your liking and add the grilled chicken pieces to it.
8. Cook for 10 minutes until the sauce thickens and chicken absorbs the gravy.
9. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

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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