Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓
Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓

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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. Alfred Prasad's murgh makhani recipe, known in the UK as butter chicken, is one of the ultimate curry dishes. The chicken is marinated in ginger and garlic paste, yoghurt and spices before grilling and combining with the rich, heady makhani sauce.

Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓 is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓 is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook murgh makhani - butter chicken 🐓 using 33 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:
  1. Get For marination
  2. Get 2 tbsp yoghurt
  3. Prepare 1 pinch salt
  4. Make ready 1 tbsp lemon juice
  5. Get 2-3 cloves garlic (paste form)
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp ginger paste
  7. Get 1 tsp garam masala
  8. Make ready 1 tsp chicken masala
  9. Prepare 1 tsp coriander-cumin powder
  10. Get 2 tbsp red chilli powder (it has to be kashmiri red chilli powder)
  11. Prepare 400 g boneless chopped chicken
  12. Take For the gravy
  13. Get 3-4 tbsp butter
  14. Get 2 tomatoes (roughly chopped)
  15. Make ready 2 medium sized onions (roughly chopped)
  16. Prepare 2 green chillis (roughly chopped)
  17. Prepare 5-8 cashew nuts
  18. Get 3-4 green cardamon pods
  19. Make ready 3-4 cloves
  20. Take 5-6 curry leaves
  21. Make ready 2 cinnamon sticks
  22. Make ready 2 tbsp garam masala
  23. Get 2 tbsp chicken masala
  24. Prepare 3 tbsp red chilli powder (Kashmiri)
  25. Take Salt (as per taste)
  26. Get 1 tsp kasuri methi (fenugreek)
  27. Get 2 tbsp thick cream
  28. Take About 1 cup water for the liquid puree
  29. Get 1 tsp sugar (you can substitute it with honey - but not too much)
  30. Get For garnishing
  31. Take Some coriander leaves - chopped tiny (optional)
  32. Take 1 pinch fenugreek
  33. Make ready 1 tsp cream

What is the origin of butter chicken? 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. Very good and quick to put together!

Instructions to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:
  1. For marinating: The process can go through two marination steps, but I just did one. - Take a bowl, add in the chopped chicken pieces. You can choose to go for chicken with bone as this dish can be boneless or with bone. Add ginger paste, garlic paste, garam masala, chicken masala, red chilli powder, salt and lemon juice. Mix well and set it aside for 20-30minutes. I set it aside for 1 hour, you can leave it overnight too (in the fridge 😉)
  2. To make the tandoor chicken: - After marination, take a frying pan. Pour in some oil enough to fry the chicken but not too much. Place the chicken pieces in the pan and turn them to the other side when you think it might have cooked for quite some time (may be about 7 minutes). Use low flame. Keep turning them until they are brownish (light brown). Once ready, take the pieces out into a bowl.
  3. Use the same frying pan, add in cardamon pods, cinnamon sticks, cloves, curry leaves and sauté. Add ginger garlic paste. Once you start smelling the garlic, add in the onions. Let it fry for some minutes, all using medium flame. Add in the chopped tomatoes, green chillis and butter, you can add tomato puree too. Add garam masala, chilli powder, chicken masala, salt, cashew nuts and water. Mix, cover and let it cook for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, let it cool.
  4. Pour the mixture in step 3 into a grinder and grind. Once it's all mixed and ground, sieve it in order to get rid of the coarse spices and tomato skin/seeds. Also remember butter chicken gravy has to be velvety smooth. You can use a hand grinder too but a mixer grinder is the best choice.
  5. Add butter 😁to the same frying pan. Add some garlic paste. I used grated garlic (last minute 😁). Pour in the liquid puree and let it cook for about 20minutes. Add in the tandoor chicken pieces, sugar, coriander leaves and salt if it's not as per your taste yet. Sprinkle in fenugreek, and add in thick cream. Stir and let it cook for another 10 minutes
  6. Serve hot and eat quickly 😜. For plating, take a bowl and fill it with gravy and the chicken pieces on top. Take some bit more gravy and pour it over the chicken pieces. Sprinkle fenugreek and coriander leaves. Eat with Naan or 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. Very good and quick to put together! Broccoli , carrots and beans into the sauce right at the end just got extra nutrition.. In India this dish is usually made with bone-in chicken and outside of India boneless chicken is more commonly used. Authentic Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani is a luscious, velvety, and creamy Indian chicken recipe.

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