"Butter Chicken is one of the famous dish in Indian Cuisine. Its Originates from northern India. Butter Chicken known as murgh makhani - chicken with butter and it is also similar to British Tikka masala. Kundan Lal Gujral is the founder of this Dish. He tried with tandoori chicken and added tomatoes, butter, some masalas to the gravy. This became famous dish as "Butter Chicken". It tastes like mildly spicy, Creamy and sweet flavor resulting from the butter base. You can serve this with rice along with Steamed Vegetables, like broccoli or cauliflower and also Naan, Bread, Samosa and etc."
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Butter Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 medium sized chicken (800 gm) - cut into 12 pieces
- Juice of 1 lemon, 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 1 1/4 tsp salt, garam masala, cashewnuts
- 1 cup milk, 2tbsp cream, ginger - garlic paste
- 2tbsp butter, 2-3 tbsp oil
Marinade
- 3/4 cup curd - hang for 30 minutes in a muslin cloth
- 1tbsp cornflour
- 1tbsp grated onion
- 2tbsp cream, 1 tbsp ginger - garlic paste
- 1/2 tsp black slat, 1tsp garam masala
Paste
- 2 piece of ginger and 10 flakes of garlic
- 2 cups tomato puree, 4 tbsp cashewnuts
- 1 tsp garam masala, 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 1/4 tsp sugar or as per taste and 1/2 tsp salt
- Make a paste of it.
Methods
- Wash and pat dry chicken, Rub lemon juice, salt and chilli powder on the chicken and keep aside for 1/2 hour.
- Mix all the ingredients of the marinade well. Add chicken and mix well.
- Keep aside for 3-4 hours in the fridge.
- Heat pan and grease oil. Put chicken pieces on the greased pan, Cook the pieces for 20 minutes or till cooked. Keep the chicken aside.
- Grind all the ingredients of paste to a smooth paste in the mixer.
- For Gravy, put butter and oil on the pan and add prepared paste, Mix it well and cook for 8 minutes.
- Add about 1 1/2 cup of water and cook. Stir well. Add already cooked chicken. Cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Gravy ready and let it cool down till serving time.
- Add milk, cream and garam masala into the gravy and cook for 2 minutes. Serve Hot.
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