Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)

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Alfred Prasad 's murgh makhani recipe, known in the UK as butter chicken, is one of the ultimate curry dishes. The chicken is marinated in ginger and garlic paste, yoghurt and spices before grilling and combining with the rich, heady makhani sauce. This recipe appears in our first ever cookbook, Great British Chefs, available to buy on Amazon.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have butter chicken (murgh makhani) using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
  1. Make ready To Marinate the Chicken:
  2. Make ready 2 Chicken Breast
  3. Take 1 tbsp ginger and garlic paste
  4. Prepare 1 tsp chilli powder
  5. Get 1 tsp garam masala
  6. Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
  7. Get 1 tsp cumin powder
  8. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  9. Take 1/2 tsp corriander powder
  10. Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
  11. Get 2 tbsp oil
  12. Get To make the base sauce:
  13. Get 3 Onions
  14. Get 15-20 Cashews Nuts
  15. Prepare 2 Dried Chillies
  16. Get 2 tbsp tomato paste
  17. Take Salt as per taste
  18. Get 1/2 tsp sugar
  19. Get Dry Spices(3 cloves, 1 star anise, 1/2 Cinnamon stick, 1 big elachi)
  20. Take 1 tsp cumin powder
  21. Take 1 tsp coriander powder
  22. Make ready 1/2 tsp red chilli powder (optional)
  23. Make ready 50 g butter
  24. Make ready 30-40 ml double cream

Butter chicken, also known as murgh makhani, is one of the most popular Indian curries around the world today. It's quite a mild curry compared to many Indian curries. Butter chicken is composed of pieces of chicken cooked in a mildly spiced tomato and cream sauce. [VIDEOS] Check out those Indian Recipes UK curry lovers can't seem to get enough of Chicken Tikka Masala; the one thing that gets the appetite going for most Indians undoubtedly has to be 'Butter Chicken' or Murgh Makhani. Most Mughlai and Punjabi restaurants will serve you a plate of this goodness as do dhabas and street vendors.

Steps to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Stir in double cream and remaining 2 tablespoons butter.
  7. Garnish with coriander and serve warm over rice with naan or Roti.

I could devour into an entire dish all by myself. Butter Chicken is one of the most popular Indian dishes worldwide - often referred to as Murgh Makhani on restaurant menus, this dish is rich, creamy and flavoursome. A perfect alternative to Korma for those who like their curries fairly mild, it really is one of those dishes that is destined to become a firm favourite in any household. Creamy, tangy and rich tomato sauce gravy coats the marinated and fried chicken pieces to become this indulgence of Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani, that is a favorite among any who loves a good Chicken curry. Butter Chicken (also known as Murgh Makhani) is a dish you often see on the menu of restaurants, originating from Delhi in India with firm roots in Punjabi cuisine, it has become renowned all over the world for being one of the most loved dishes.

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