Recipe: Perfect Silky Butter Chicken Recipe

Silky Butter Chicken Recipe. Add half of chicken to pan. If anyone has traveled through India - one would have noticed 'Butter Chicken' is THE National dish in Northern India. No menu of any local eatery, big or small, is complete without Butter chicken.

There are three main steps to make it perfect: Make the Special Butter Chicken Sauce: This is the base of the curry and is SUPER simple to make. You just need to throw in all the ingredients for it in a pot and cook it until the tomatoes are mushy. Prepare butter chicken but don't stir in cilantro and peas. You can cook Silky Butter Chicken Recipe using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Silky Butter Chicken Recipe

1. Prepare 500 grams of chicken.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
3. It's 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of full tandoori chicken masala or garam masala.
5. It's to taste of Salt.
6. Prepare 1 of medium onion.
7. You need 200 grams of tomatoes.
8. You need 15 of cashews.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of full red chilli powder.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of full coriander powder.
11. It's 1 tsp of cumin powder.
12. You need 1 tsp of kasoori methi.
13. It's 1/2 tsp of full sugar.
14. Prepare 1/4 cup of fresh cream or milk cream.
15. Prepare of red food colouring optional.
16. You need 50 grams of butter or oil.

Butter Chicken Masala is one of the most popular Indian chicken dishes liked by most of us for its mild, subtle flavours and deliciously rich creamy gravy. Its gravy can be made as hot or mild as. Place chicken in a glass dish or bowl with lemon juice, chili powder, and a good pinch of salt. Don't worry, though, my spicy food loving friends.

Silky Butter Chicken Recipe instructions

1. Marinate chicken with ginger garlic paste tandoori chicken masala lemon juice and salt for 30 minutes.
2. Take a pressure cooker add chopped onion tomato cashews red chilli powder coriander powder cumin powder and salt add 1/4 cup water and cook until 4 whistles.
3. Once pressure is gone open cooker cool masala and then grind it into a smooth paste u can strain the masala too for smooth texture after grinding.
4. Heat butter in a vessel add marinated chicken cook on medium flame till chicken is roasted well and oil oozes out.
5. Once oil comes out increase heat and roast piece further till they brown from all sides.
6. Now add the onion tomato masala paste mix well add water to adjust consistency boil well then cover and simmer 5 minutes.
7. Then add fresh cream sugar kasoori methi and food colouring mix well boil and simmer 3 to 4 minutes.
8. Butter chicken is ready u can give coal smoke too for perfect restaurant style taste.
9. Serve with naan parantha tandoori roti and rice.....Take care jazak allah khair.

Butter chicken is filled with big, bold flavors. And, you can adjust with heat to your tongue's desires. Butter Chicken is a curry made with tender, juicy chicken that marinates in yogurt and lots of aromatic spices. WHY IS IT CALLED BUTTER CHICKEN. Created by Kundan Lal Gujral, you may notice that Butter Chicken (known as murgh makhani — chicken with butter), is similar to British tikka masala.