Recipe of Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓 in 19 Minutes at Home

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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. WHY IS IT CALLED BUTTER CHICKEN.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have murgh makhani - butter chicken 🐓 using 33 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:

1. Prepare For marination
2. Make ready yoghurt
3. Take salt
4. Take lemon juice
5. Make ready garlic (paste form)
6. Take ginger paste
7. Get garam masala
8. Prepare chicken masala
9. Prepare coriander-cumin powder
10. Get red chilli powder (it has to be kashmiri red chilli powder)
11. Take boneless chopped chicken
12. Take For the gravy
13. Take butter
14. Get tomatoes (roughly chopped)
15. Make ready medium sized onions (roughly chopped)
16. Make ready green chillis (roughly chopped)
17. Take cashew nuts
18. Make ready green cardamon pods
19. Get cloves
20. Get curry leaves
21. Prepare cinnamon sticks
22. Make ready garam masala
23. Prepare chicken masala
24. Prepare red chilli powder (Kashmiri)
25. Prepare Salt (as per taste)
26. Prepare kasuri methi (fenugreek)
27. Get thick cream
28. Take About 1 cup water for the liquid puree
29. Prepare sugar (you can substitute it with honey - but not too much)
30. Take For garnishing
31. Take Some coriander leaves - chopped tiny (optional)
32. Take fenugreek
33. Take cream

What is the origin of butter chicken? In India this dish is usually made with bone-in chicken and outside of India boneless chicken is more commonly used. Butter chicken recipe-chicken tikka cooked in creamy delicious makhani gravy is one of the popular chicken recipes across India. Butter Chicken is popularly known as murgh makhani or chicken makhani.

Instructions to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:

1. For marinating: The process can go through two marination steps, but I just did one. - Take a bowl, add in the chopped chicken pieces. You can choose to go for chicken with bone as this dish can be boneless or with bone. Add ginger paste, garlic paste, garam masala, chicken masala, red chilli powder, salt and lemon juice. Mix well and set it aside for 20-30minutes. I set it aside for 1 hour, you can leave it overnight too (in the fridge 😉)
2. To make the tandoor chicken: - After marination, take a frying pan. Pour in some oil enough to fry the chicken but not too much. Place the chicken pieces in the pan and turn them to the other side when you think it might have cooked for quite some time (may be about 7 minutes). Use low flame. Keep turning them until they are brownish (light brown). Once ready, take the pieces out into a bowl.
3. Use the same frying pan, add in cardamon pods, cinnamon sticks, cloves, curry leaves and sauté. Add ginger garlic paste. Once you start smelling the garlic, add in the onions. Let it fry for some minutes, all using medium flame. Add in the chopped tomatoes, green chillis and butter, you can add tomato puree too. Add garam masala, chilli powder, chicken masala, salt, cashew nuts and water. Mix, cover and let it cook for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, let it cool.
4. Pour the mixture in step 3 into a grinder and grind. Once it's all mixed and ground, sieve it in order to get rid of the coarse spices and tomato skin/seeds. Also remember butter chicken gravy has to be velvety smooth. You can use a hand grinder too but a mixer grinder is the best choice.
5. Add butter 😁to the same frying pan. Add some garlic paste. I used grated garlic (last minute 😁). Pour in the liquid puree and let it cook for about 20minutes. Add in the tandoor chicken pieces, sugar, coriander leaves and salt if it's not as per your taste yet. Sprinkle in fenugreek, and add in thick cream. Stir and let it cook for another 10 minutes
6. Serve hot and eat quickly 😜. For plating, take a bowl and fill it with gravy and the chicken pieces on top. Take some bit more gravy and pour it over the chicken pieces. Sprinkle fenugreek and coriander leaves. Eat with Naan or rice.

There are various recipes of butter chicken available in the market, but to prepare this secret recipe of butter chicken curry you have to read the full post. In the same way, if you notice that this recipe is known as "Murgh makhani" in different places of India. Authentic murgh makhani will always have a smoky undertone, which traditionally comes from cooking the chicken in a tandoor or clay oven. But since we are trying to recreate that flavour in our kitchen, we'll smoke the dish right at the end with a piece of charcoal or lump coal. Butter chicken recipe - This post will guide you how to make butter chicken at home that tastes absolutely delicious, flavor packed, creamy and rich.

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