Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, indian butter chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter chicken is prepared with marinated chicken that's first grilled and then served in a rich gravy (a.k.a. curry) made with tomato, butter, and a special spice blend as a base. Unlike most Indian curries where the preparation of the base starts with a blend of onion and a ginger garlic paste cooked in oil, butter chicken uses tomato as a. Easy Indian Butter Chicken Easy Indian Butter Chicken.

Indian Butter Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Indian Butter Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have indian butter chicken using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Indian Butter Chicken:

1. Make ready 2-3 pieces boneless chicken breast
2. Take Rice or Bread for sides
3. Take Milk or Cream
4. Make ready Plain yoghurt
5. Take Tomato paste
6. Take Marinade
7. Make ready 1/2 cup plain yoghurt
8. Prepare 1 tbsp fresh grated ginger
9. Get 2 cloves minced garlic
10. Make ready 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
11. Take 1 tsp cumin
12. Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
13. Make ready 2 tsp garam masala
14. Make ready 1 tsp chili powder or cayenne pepper powder
15. Take 1/2 tsp salt (I use Himalayan Pink salt)
16. Take Gravy
17. Prepare 1 tbsp butter or ghee or olive oil
18. Prepare 1/2 cup tomato puree or tomato paste
19. Prepare 1 tbsp sugar
20. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp salt
21. Take 1 cup milk or cream

Reduce heat and add the butter. Return chicken to wok and stir to coat with the spices. Indian butter chicken consists of pieces of tandoori chicken cooked in a tangy, velvety tomato cream sauce. Despite its rich flavors and hearty consistency, butter chicken is a surprisingly low-carb meal.

Steps to make Indian Butter Chicken:

1. First, cut chicken breast into small to medium size dice bites. Prepare the marinated and mix all together in a bowl before putting in the chicken.
2. Put in the chicken and mix again until even.
3. Marinate the chicken for 24 hours but if you don’t have time, 30 mins to an hour should be enough for the chicken to absorb the spices.
4. Heat 1 tbsp butter or ghee on the pan (high heat) and fry the chicken for more or less 5 mins. The chicken will not browned because of the marinate.
5. Take it out of the pan, and fry again for the second time for another 5 mins or until the chicken is fully cooked.
6. Add on 1/2 cup of tomato sauce to the chicken, milk or cream, sugar and salt. Turn down the heat to low and simmer it for around 20 minutes.
7. Taste it if it needs more salt or any other spices. Garnish with left over cream and some cilantros.

An Indian Butter Chicken recipe, Butter Chicken or Chicken Makhani can vary greatly from restaurant to restaurant, and region to region. Some are made with whole bone-in chicken thighs. But most experts agree the original recipe may have been created to use up leftover restaurant tandoori chicken. Tandoori chicken is an Indian delicacy, made by. Butter chicken originated from using leftover dry tandoori chicken and giving it moisture with a creamy spiced tomato sauce — plus some butter, and we have butter chicken.

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