Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Butter chicken also known as chicken makhani is one of the most popular, lip smacking and Chunks of grilled chicken (tandoori chicken) cooked in a smooth buttery & creamy tomato based. Butter chicken or murg makhani (pronounced [mʊrg ˈmək.kʰə.niː]) is a dish of chicken in a spiced tomato, butter and cream sauce. It originated in the Indian subcontinent.
Butter Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Butter Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:
- Make ready 3 diced chicken breasts
- Make ready 2 tsp sweet paprika
- Prepare 2 tsp ground cumin
- Prepare 1 tsp chilli powder
- Make ready 100 g plain yoghurt
- Get 1 lemon
- Get 2 onions
- Take 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- Take 4 garlic cloves
- Make ready 1 green chilli
- Take Thumb size ginger
- Get 1 tsp garam masala
- Take 2 tsp fenugreek
- Prepare 3 tbsp tomato purée
- Get 200 ml chicken stock
- Get Naan bread or rice to serve
Skip the Indian takeout and cook up your very own version of the popular dish! Butter Chicken is one of my top five favorite Indian recipes. Butter chicken like chicken tikka masala, is one of the most popular Indian curries across the world and for all the right reasons. This delicious chicken recipe is also popular by its Hindi name.
Instructions to make Butter Chicken:
- Mix paprika, cumin, lemon juice, chilli powder and yoghurt, marinade the chicken for a couple of hours or overnight
- Heat the oil in a pan and add onion, green chilli, ginger until soft, then add spices and tomato purée and cook for a few more minutes
- Add stock and marinated chicken and bring to boil then simmer at a low heat for an hour
- Serve with coriander and rice or a naan or both!
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. There is a very good reason why butter chicken is one of the most loved Indian dishes: it's pretty darn delicious. Succulent marinated chicken steeped in a rich and creamy tomato sauce. Butter chicken originated from using leftover dry tandoori chicken and giving it moisture with a creamy spiced tomato sauce — plus some butter, and we have butter chicken. This means you now have the lovely buttery tomato-ey sauce ready for the next time you have chicken leftover.
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