Authentic Butter Chicken Recipe

DELICIOUS FOOD

Delicious Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the maximum popular curries within the international and but happens to be one of the easiest! No searching down tough to find components, this chef recipe that makes the most exceptional curry sauce.

Indulge in the rich, creamy flavors of Butter Chicken with this easy dinner recipe. Perfectly spiced, tender chicken in a luscious tomato-based gravy!

3 Simple Steps

1.Make Butter Chicken Marinade and marinate chook for 3+ hours (in a single day is high-quality)

2.Cook Chicken

3.Make sauce inside the same pan.

Ingredients

1.Marinade

1/2 cup plain yoghurt , full fat

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp tumeric powder

2 tsp garam masala (Note 1)

1/2 tsp chilli powder or cayenne pepper powder (Note 2)

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tbsp ginger, freshly grated

2 cloves garlic, crushed

750 g chicken thigh cut in to pieces

2.Curry

2 tbsp (30 g) ghee or butter, OR 1 tbsp vegetable oil 

1 cup tomato paste

1 cup heavy  cream

1 tbsp sugar

1 1/4 tsp salt

coriander leaves for garnishing

Instructions

Marinade: Combine the Marinade components with the chook in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate overnight, or as much as 24 hours (min 3 hrs).

Cook chicken: Heat the ghee (butter or oil) over high heat in a huge fry pan. Take the chicken out of the Marinade but do no longer wipe or shake off the marinade from the chicken (but don’t pour the Marinade left in the bowl into the fry pan).

Place chicken in the fry pan and cook for around three minutes, or until the chicken is white throughout (it doesn’t surely brown because of the Marinade).

Sauce: Add the tomato paste, cream, sugar and salt. Also upload any closing marinade left inside the bowl. Turn down to low and simmer for 20 mins. Do a taste test to look if it needs greater salt.

Garnish with coriander/cilantro leaves if the use of. Serve with basmati rice.

Tips

The beautiful Butter Chicken Sauce mostly receives its richness from cream. While a few restaurants take it over the pinnacle via stirring in a (very!) generous quantity of butter into the sauce on the stop, I locate that it’s rich sufficient as it's miles.