Butter Chicken is an Indian delicacy where chicken is cooked in tomato-based gravy with species and cream.
Butter Chicken Masala Recipe | Indian Butter Chicken | How to make Butter Chicken at home with step by step pictures. Butter Chicken is been one of my favourite food since childhood. So whenever we visit a restaurant I never fail to order butter chicken. Ever since I started cooking I just tried to recreate butter chicken at home many time but I could never get the restaurant taste and finally this recipe brought me the exact taste which I liked. So sharing today India’s Famous Butter Chicken Masala, let’s see how to prepare this delicacy.
Ingredients:
Recipe Instructions
2. Prepare tomato puree by blanching the tomatoes. Boil the tomatoes with little water till the skin start to splutter in the sides and then switch off the flame. Cool down and the peel the skin of the tomatoes and grind them to a fine puree.
3. Heat Butter in a pan to this add the Bay leaves, Cinnamon stick, Cloves and Cardamom pods.
4. Next add in ginger garlic paste fry till the raw smell leaves and then add the prepared tomato puree .Cook for 2 mins in a medium flame.
5. Add in Chilli powder, Coriander powder, Garam Masala .Mix well and cook till the masala blends well. Now add in the marinated chicken cover cook for 8 mins cooked.
6. Now add in Salt, Sugar and Fresh cream give a good mix. Chicken would have been cooked by now .Cook in a low flame for 2 mins and switch off. Finally garnish with dried Kasuri Methi. Serve hot.
Butter Chicken | Murgh Makhani
Ingredients
To Marinate :
- Chicken – 250 gms or ¼ kg
- Chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
- Garam Masala – ½ tsp
- Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp
- Salt as needed
- Curd /Yogurt – ¼ cup
Other Ingredients :
- Butter – 2 tbsp
- Bay Leaves – 1
- Cinnamon stick – 1 inch piece
- Cloves - 2
- Cardamom – 2
- Ginger garlic paste – ½ tsp
- Tomato -2
- Chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander powder - 1 tsp
- Garam Masala – ½ tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar – 1 tsp
- Fresh Cream – ¼ cup
- Kasuri Methi – 2 tsp
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken with the ingredients mentioned under the “To Marinate” section and allow it to rest for an hour.
- Prepare tomato puree by blanching the tomatoes. Boil the tomatoes with little water till the skin start to splutter in the sides and then switch off the flame. Cool down and the peel the skin of the tomatoes and grind them to a fine puree.
- Heat Butter in a pan to this add the Bay leaves, Cinnamon stick, Cloves and Cardamom pods.
- Next add in ginger garlic paste fry till the raw smell leaves and then add the prepared tomato puree .Cook for 2 mins in a medium flame.
- Add in Chilli powder, Coriander powder, Garam Masala .Mix well and cook till the masala blends well.
- Now add in the marinated chicken cover cook for 8 mins cooked.
- Now add in Salt, Sugar and Fresh cream give a good mix. Chicken would have been cooked by now .Cook in a low flame for 2 mins and switch off. Finally garnish with dried Kasuri Methi. Serve hot.
Notes
· You can also replace sugar by honey.
· Pairs well with Roti or Naan.
· Use boneless chicken pieces for best results.
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