Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken (murgh makhani). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken (murgh makhani) using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
- Take To Marinate the Chicken:
- Take 2 Chicken Breast
- Get 1 tbsp ginger and garlic paste
- Prepare 1 tsp chilli powder
- Take 1 tsp garam masala
- Take 1 tsp turmeric
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 tsp corriander powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare To make the base sauce:
- Prepare 3 Onions
- Get 15-20 Cashews Nuts
- Make ready 2 Dried Chillies
- Make ready 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Take Salt as per taste
- Get 1/2 tsp sugar
- Get Dry Spices(3 cloves, 1 star anise, 1/2 Cinnamon stick, 1 big elachi)
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin powder
- Get 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp red chilli powder (optional)
- Take 50 g butter
- Make ready 30-40 ml double cream
Instructions to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
- In a large bowl, whisk together lemon juice, oil,turmeric, garam masala, cumin powder,coriander powder, chilli powder, ginger& garlic paste. Add chicken and toss until fully coated. Let marinate for 1-2 hours. (preferable overnight)
- In a large pot over the medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter. Working in batches, add chicken and cook until golden all over, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate.
- Reduce heat to medium and melt 2 tablespoons butter. Add the dry chillies, Cashew nuts and diced onions.Cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add 300ml water and cook until fragrant.
- Once the onions cooked and water start to boil, take it off the heat. Drain all the water and blitz the onions and cashews nuts. Do not throw the water away. Keep it aside.
- Heat up some butter.Add the dry spices (as listed above in the ingredients list), cumin powder, coriander and red chilli powder. Cook until fragrant. Add the onions and cashew purée and tomato purée into the dry spices. Stir it and return chicken to sauce with same water that cooked onions and cashews nuts. Add salt n 1/2tsp sugar. Let simmer until the chicken is cooked through, about 8 minutes.
- Stir in double cream and remaining 2 tablespoons butter.
- Garnish with coriander and serve warm over rice with naan or Roti.
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