Recipes of Indian Cuisine: Butter Chicken

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“Indian cuisine is renown for its richness and variety, with its innumerable spices and tastes.
In this page you will find an easy recipe of one of the most famous Indian dishes: read it carefully and you will be able to bring a little bit of India back to your country! ”

Servings: 3 or 4

What is Butter chicken?

Chunks of grilled chicken (tandoori chicken) cooked in a smooth buttery & creamy tomato based gravy is known as Butter chicken or murgh makhani.

An easy recipe to make delicious and creamy Indian style chicken in less than 30 minutes. It goes great with butter naan, roti or even with rice.

To make Butter Chicken, the chicken is marinated in yogurt and then grilled. It is cooked in tomato gravy without the use of onions and then cream is used towards the end. Chicken butter masala is made with an onion tomato gravy and the chicken is just sauted and then added to the onion tomato gravy.

            Marination

• 400 to 500 grams of chicken
• 1/2 to 3/4 tsp red chili powder
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• Salt as needed
• 1 to 2 tbsp yogurt
• 1/ to 3/4 tsp garam masala
• Little turmeric

Ingredients for gravy

• 1 tbsp. butter or Oil
• 1 cups cubed onions, 3 medium
• 1.5 cups finely chopped deseeded tomatoes (3 large)
• salt as needed
• 10 to 12 cashew nuts / kaju
• 1/ to 3/4 tsp. garam masala powder
• 1/ to 3/4 tsp. kashmiri red chilli powder
• 1 tsp. coriander powder
• 1/ tsp. sugar(optional)
• 1 1/2 tbsp. Butter
• 1 bay leaf
• 3 green cardamom
• 2 to 3 cloves
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• 1.5 tsp ginger garlic paste
• 1/2 tsp. kasuri methi
• 3 tbsp cream( for restaurant style)
• few coriander leaves for garnish

How to make the recipe:
Preparation

1. Marinate chicken with ingredients mentioned under marination. Set aside till we need ¡t. Overnight marination is needed to yield restaurant style dish.
2. Heat 1 tbsp butter or in a pan, fry onions till the raw smell goes away
3. Saute tomatoes with salt.
4. Add chili powder, masala powder and coriander powder along with cashews. Saute until the raw smell goes away.
5. Cool and blend together with 3/4 to 1 cup water. Making butter chicken masala.
6. Heat the pan with more butter and fry cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and cardamom.
7. Add ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes off.
8. Add marinated chicken and saute on a medium high until the masala dries up.
9. Pour the onion tomato puree, adjust as needed chili powder and masala powder. Also adjust the consistency of gravy by adding more water if needed.
10. Cook until the chicken turns tender.
11. Add kasuri methi and stir.
12. Add cream and stir well. You can skip cream if using little more of cashews to the puree.
13. Add chopped coriander leaves.
14. Serve Indian butter chicken masala with roti, butter naan or jeera rice.

Recipes of Indian Cuisine: Butter Chicken

How to make butter chicken masala recipe restaurant style

1. We need to marinate chicken to make it soft, tender and mouth melting like we get in restaurants. Yogurt makes the chicken soft. In restaurants chicken is marinated for long hours and used. Some even use meat tenderizer.
   However you can skip marinating if you are short of time. Marinate chicken with 1 to 2 tbsp yogurt, red chili powder, turmeric, ginger garlic paste, garam masala and salt. Set aside until we need it.
   If you have time you can also leave it overnight in refrigerator.
2. Heat a pan with butter or oil. Saute onions until they turn pink. Just for the raw smell to go off.
3. Add tomatoes, prinkle salt. Cook until they turn soft and mushy.
4. Add red chili powder, Garam masala and cashews. If you don’t want to use cream for this recipe then use a bit more of cashews.
5. Fry until the raw smell of masala goes off.
6. Cool it and add to blender with ¾ to 1 cup of water.
7. Blend to a smooth puree. This is the onion tomato base for the chicken butter masala.
8. Heat the same pan with butter, Saute 1 bay Leaf, cinnamon stick, cloves and cardamom.
9. Add ginger garlic paste and fry until, the raw smell goes off completely.

Recipes of Indian Cuisine: Butter Chicken