How to Prepare Butter chicken in 20 Minutes at Home

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Butter chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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 a great, ever-evolving, cross-continental dish found in Delhi, London, New York, Perth and most points in between.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter chicken:

1. Make ready chicken(boneless)
2. Make ready lemon juice
3. Get salt
4. Get red chillie powder
5. Make ready crushed kasuri methi
6. Take turmeric
7. Take garam masala powder
8. Get Ginger Garlic paste
9. Make ready thick yoghurt
10. Prepare cinnamon stick
11. Make ready cloves
12. Take green cardamons
13. Make ready green chillies slit
14. Get large tomatoes pureed and filtered to remove seeds and skin
15. Get cashew nuts blanched
16. Get sugar
17. Take chilled cream
18. Prepare Salt

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. Marinade chicken with lemon juice, chillie powder and salt for 20 minutes.
2. Marinade again with yogurt, kasuri methi, oil, turmeric, ginger garlic paste and garam masala powder. Refrigerate for 3 hours.
3. Add cashew in a blender jar along with tomatoes and make smooth puree. Strain puree if not too smooth.
4. Heat 1tsp butter in a pan and add marinated chicken. Fry on high flame till moisture evaporates.
5. Heat a pan with butter and saute cinnamon, cloves and cardamons for a minute. Add ginger garlic paste green chilles and fry for few minutes. Pour in tomato cashew puree. Mix and cook till the paste becomes thick.
6. Pour 1 cup water. Bring mix to boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
7. Add chicken and simmer for about 5 minutes. Add garam masala and kasuri methi and simmer for 2 minutes.
8. Serve garnished with coriander and some cream. Can be served with rice or paratha.

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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