Recipe: Tasty Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken. 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.

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 was first created in India just a few decades ago, and was actually born out of a need to re-purpose unsold chicken. So he created a creamy tomato sauce full of spices and butter to rehydrate the chicken and create. You can cook Butter Chicken using 30 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butter Chicken

1. You need 3 tsp of butter.
2. You need 2 tsp of oil.
3. It's 1/2 tsp of kasuri methi.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
5. Prepare of For curry.
6. It's 1/4 Cup of water.
7. It's 500 gm of tomatoes.
8. It's 50 gm of onions.
9. It's 1 of bayleaf.
10. You need 1 of Cinnamon stick.
11. It's 1 of black cardamon.
12. You need 2-3 of cloves.
13. Prepare 3 of green cardamon.
14. You need 1 inch of ginger.
15. You need 2 of garlic cloves.
16. It's 1 tsp of Kashmiri red chilli powder.
17. You need 2 tsp of butter.
18. Prepare 6 of cashews.
19. Prepare 2-3 of oil.
20. Prepare of Chicken tikka( for first marination).
21. Prepare 400 gm of chicken.
22. You need to taste of Salt.
23. Prepare 2 tsp of lemon juice.
24. You need 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
25. Prepare of For second marination.
26. You need 3 tsp of mustard oil.
27. It's 2 tsp of Kashmiri chilli powder.
28. It's 1 cup of hung curd.
29. Prepare 1 tsp of lemon juice.
30. It's to taste of Salt.

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. Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular curries in the world and yet happens to be one of the easiest!

Butter Chicken instructions

1. In a pan add things under curry list.Cook by covering the lid until tomatoes are cooked well..
2. Before cooking marinate the chicken pieces with ingredients under first marination..
3. Combine mustard oil and chilli powder which gives the chicken the natural colour with adding any extra colour.Squeeze chicken pieces from above marination and put in second marination adding curd,lemon juice and salt..
4. Fry the chicken pieces in a pan by adding oil.Add chicken pieces at high flame so that it does not release water from it.When one side is cooked flip and cook other side..
5. Grind the tomatoes to fine paste.Take the same pan add 3 tsp butter. To this add ginger garlic paste, Green chilli chopped. When they are light brown in colour add puree.cook them.Add kastori methi and sugar.Check salt..
6. Then add our chicken tikka.Cook again for few minutes and serve with chapati, naan or rice..

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! 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.