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

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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. Created by Kundan Lal Gujral, you may notice that Butter Chicken (known as murgh makhani — chicken with butter), is similar to British tikka masala.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook butter chicken (murgh makhani) using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Butter chicken is composed of pieces of chicken cooked in a mildly spiced tomato and cream sauce. 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. This recipe appears in our first ever cookbook, Great British Chefs, available to buy on Amazon.

Steps 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.

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. 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.

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