How to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Butter Chicken

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Butter chicken curry or murgh makhani (pronounced [mʊrg ˈmək.kʰə.ni]) is a curry of chicken in a spiced tomato, butter and cream sauce. It originated in India as a curry. Learn how to make Butter Chicken, a heavenly chicken gravy recipe by Chef Varun Inamdar. Butter Chicken is probably one of the most popular Indian chicken.

Butter Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Butter Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have butter chicken using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:

1. Make ready 800 g chicken
2. Prepare 1/2 cup yoghurt
3. Take 1 tablespoon garlic paste
4. Make ready 1 tablespoon ginger paste
5. Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
6. Take 1 teaspoon salt
7. Prepare 1 teaspoon chilli powder
8. Make ready 4 large tomatoes
9. Take 1 onion roughly chopped
10. Prepare 1 tablespoon ginger paste
11. Prepare 1 tablespoon garlic paste
12. Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
13. Take 1 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
14. Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
15. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
16. Make ready 2 star anise
17. Make ready 7-8 cardamom
18. Make ready 10-12 peppercorns
19. Get 5-6 cloves
20. Take 1 cinnamon stick
21. Prepare As needed Coriander leaves chopped to garnish
22. Prepare 1/4 cup +1 tablespoon heavy cream
23. Take 2 tablespoons cooking oil
24. Get 1/2 tablespoon sugar
25. Prepare 2 tablespoons butter
26. Take To taste Salt according
27. Take 1/2 teaspoon kasuri methi

The Makhani sauce and chicken come together with the most incredible spice and flavor. No one will believe it's not take-out! 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. Butter Chicken simmers in a buttery tomato sauce and is punctuated by several special spices and herbs.

Steps to make Butter Chicken:

1. In a bowl, take the chicken and add all the marinades, and let it sit for about an hour to overnight, if possible.
2. Take a pan, heat it on medium flame. Once hot sprinkle some oil and add the marinated chicken. Do not overcrowd them. You can put them in batches. Cook each side of the chicken for 3-5 minutes till chicken turns brown to little black on each side.
3. Once done, remove the chicken in a bowl. The chicken will be semi cooked at this point, do not worry we will cook it later.
4. Also while cooking the chicken there might be some burnt pieces of the chicken. You can keep some of them aside and use them in the gravy. They add extra aroma to the dish.
5. In another pan, add oil and butter and heat it. Once hot, add the ginger and garlic paste, sauté for a minute.
6. Add the chopped onions and sauté for about 5 minutes. Then add tomatoes, turmeric, cumin, chilli, coriander powder, star anise, cardamom, peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon stick and continue cooking.
7. Cook it for around 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, turn off the gas and let it cool.
8. After it cools down, transfer everything to a blender and blend it to a smooth paste.
9. I like my butter chicken, smooth therefore I prefer straining the mixture. Once straining is done transfer everything to the same pan and turn on the flame and also add the chicken. Cook the chicken till it is completely done and you achieve a thick consistency of the gravy.
10. Add the cream and stir. If you feel that the gravy has become too thick, you can add a splash of water or some butter to it.
11. Add the kasoori methi at the end and turn of the flame.
12. Garnish it with chopped coriander and the remaining cream and serve hot with rice or naan.

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. Butter Chicken simmers in a buttery tomato sauce and is punctuated by several special spices and herbs. Skip the Indian takeout and cook up your very own version of the popular dish! Butter chicken must be cooked with tons of butter, right? Contrary to its title, there's This restaurant quality Butter Chicken will blow your mind!

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