Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken (murgh makhani). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

This is a simple home version of butter chicken, also known as 'murgh' or 'chicken makhani,' a popular dish in Indian restaurants. This is best served with naan, an Indian bread, or you can also serve this with basmati rice. 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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter chicken (murgh makhani) using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
  1. Prepare To Marinate the Chicken:
  2. Get 2 Chicken Breast
  3. Get 1 tbsp ginger and garlic paste
  4. Make ready 1 tsp chilli powder
  5. Get 1 tsp garam masala
  6. Get 1 tsp turmeric
  7. Take 1 tsp cumin powder
  8. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
  9. Get 1/2 tsp corriander powder
  10. Get 1 tbsp lemon juice
  11. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  12. Prepare To make the base sauce:
  13. Make ready 3 Onions
  14. Take 15-20 Cashews Nuts
  15. Take 2 Dried Chillies
  16. Make ready 2 tbsp tomato paste
  17. Prepare Salt as per taste
  18. Prepare 1/2 tsp sugar
  19. Get Dry Spices(3 cloves, 1 star anise, 1/2 Cinnamon stick, 1 big elachi)
  20. Get 1 tsp cumin powder
  21. Take 1 tsp coriander powder
  22. Get 1/2 tsp red chilli powder (optional)
  23. Get 50 g butter
  24. Get 30-40 ml double cream

The sauce was made with a mixture of cream and butter, which is why it became known at "butter chicken." Authentic Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani is a luscious, velvety, and creamy Indian chicken recipe. It is primarily a Tomato and Cashew Nut based sauce where Chicken Tikkas (Grilled Chicken Pieces) are smeared in and topped with Fresh Cream and Kasuri Methi (dried fenugreek leaves). Butter Chicken is also known as Murgh Makhani in India. Place the chicken in a bowl with the garlic, ginger, salt, chilli powder and lemon juice.

Instructions to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
  1. In a large bowl, whisk together lemon juice, oil,turmeric, garam masala, cumin powder,coriander powder, chilli powder, ginger& garlic paste. Add chicken and toss until fully coated. Let marinate for 1-2 hours. (preferable overnight)
  2. In a large pot over the medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter. Working in batches, add chicken and cook until golden all over, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate.
  3. Reduce heat to medium and melt 2 tablespoons butter. Add the dry chillies, Cashew nuts and diced onions.Cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add 300ml water and cook until fragrant.
  4. Once the onions cooked and water start to boil, take it off the heat. Drain all the water and blitz the onions and cashews nuts. Do not throw the water away. Keep it aside.
  5. Heat up some butter.Add the dry spices (as listed above in the ingredients list), cumin powder, coriander and red chilli powder. Cook until fragrant. Add the onions and cashew purée and tomato purée into the dry spices. Stir it and return chicken to sauce with same water that cooked onions and cashews nuts. Add salt n 1/2tsp sugar. Let simmer until the chicken is cooked through, about 8 minutes.
  6. Stir in double cream and remaining 2 tablespoons butter.
  7. Garnish with coriander and serve warm over rice with naan or Roti.

Butter Chicken is also known as Murgh Makhani in India. Place the chicken in a bowl with the garlic, ginger, salt, chilli powder and lemon juice. Mix together the yoghurt, garam masala, turmeric and cumin and add to the chicken, making sure that each piece is well coated with the mixture. Butter Chicken Sauce: Heat the ghee in a dutch oven or heavy bottom pot over medium heat. Butter chicken or murgh makhani, is an Indian dish where chicken that is marinated in a yogurt based marinade filled with aromatic spices is served in a buttery and creamy tomato based sauce.

So that’s going to wrap this up with this special food butter chicken (murgh makhani) recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident that you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!