Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really 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 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 is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Butter Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 30 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:

1. Make ready For the marinade
2. Take Chicken (boneless)
3. Make ready 2 tsp curd
4. Get Pinch salt
5. Make ready 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
6. Make ready 1/8 tsp turmeric
7. Make ready 1/4 tsp garam masala
8. Prepare 1/4 tsp kasuri methi
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
10. Make ready 1 tsp oil
11. Make ready For the gravy
12. Prepare 1 tsp oil
13. Prepare 1 tbsp cashew nuts
14. Make ready 1/2 medium onion, roughly chopped
15. Prepare 1 medium tomato, roughly chopped
16. Get 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
17. Make ready For finishing the sabzi
18. Make ready 1/2 tbsp butter
19. Make ready 1/4 tsp cumin seeds
20. Prepare 1-2 cloves
21. Get 1-2 cardamom
22. Make ready 1/4 " cinnamon
23. Make ready 1 green chilli slits
24. Make ready 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
25. Take 1/2 tsp cumin-coriander powder
26. Prepare 1/2 tbsp sugar/tomato ketchup
27. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt (to taste)
28. Prepare 1/4 tsp garam masala
29. Make ready 1/4 tsp kasuri methi
30. Get 1 tbsp cream (or butter and milk)

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. The sauce was made with a mixture of cream and butter, which is why it became known at "butter chicken." 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.

Instructions to make Butter Chicken:

1. Mix all the ingredients (except chicken) for the marinade in a bowl. Taste it, adjust flavour if needed.
2. Add chicken and coat it in the marinade fully. Let it rest for few hours (1-2 hours at least).
3. Grill the chicken on stove top with butter.
4. For the gravy, add oil to a pan.
5. Add cashew nuts and roast till they are light brown.
6. Add onions and cook till translucent.
7. Add the ginger-garlic paste and cook till the raw smell fades.
8. Add the tomatoes and cook till oil separates/gets mushy.
9. Let it cool down and then blend to a paste.
10. To finish the sabzi, add butter to a pan.
11. Add the whole spices (cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, clove) and cook till it sizzles.
12. Add onions, ginger-garlic paste and green chilli slits and cook.
13. Add tomato ketchup/sugar and all the dry spices except garam masala and kasuri methi.
14. Mix well and let it cook for 2-3 min.
15. Add cream (or butter and milk) and mix well.
16. Add kasuri methi and garam masala.
17. Add the chicken pieces and cook for a minute.
18. Serve hot with rice/paratha/naan!
19. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

The sauce was made with a mixture of cream and butter, which is why it became known at "butter chicken." 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! Summary: Delicious restaurant-style butter chicken can be easily made at home by following the step-by-step instructions given by the expert chef of Amritsr Restaurant. However, to master the authentic butter chicken recipe, one needs to be a little patient.

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