Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter Chicken or murgh makhani (pronounced [mʊrg ˈmək.kʰə.ni]) is a curry of chicken in a spiced tomato, butter and cream sauce. It originated in India as a curry. Butter Chicken - a Chef recipe! As someone who loves food with big, BIG flavours, it's no surprise Butter Chicken is one of the few exceptions.

Butter chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Butter chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have butter chicken using 18 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter chicken:

1. Take 2 chicken breasts
2. Make ready 50 g natural yoghurt
3. Make ready 2 tsp minced garlic
4. Get 2 tsp minced ginger
5. Make ready 2 tsp garam masala
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric
7. Prepare 1 tsp cumin
8. Take 1 tsp chilli powder
9. Get 1 tbsp olive oil
10. Take 1/2 white onion sliced
11. Prepare 1 tbsp butter
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground coriander
13. Get 400 g chopped tomatoes
14. Prepare 50 g light double cream
15. Make ready 1 tsp salt
16. Take 1 garlic and coriander naan bread
17. Make ready 225 g basmati rice
18. Prepare Diced coriander to serve

This means you now have the lovely buttery tomato-ey sauce ready for the next time you have chicken leftover. Butter Chicken simmers in a buttery tomato sauce and is punctuated by several special spices and herbs. Skip the Indian takeout and cook up your very own version of the popular dish! 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.

Steps to make Butter chicken:

1. Sliced your chicken and marinade in yoghurt, half of your minced garlic, and of your minced ginger, half of your garam masala, half of your turmeric, half of your cumin, and chilli powder. Marinade for 30 minutes minimum
2. Fry your chicken until browned for 3 minutes each side and leave aside
3. Start your sauce by melting butter in a pan and frying your onions for 6 minutes
4. Add the rest of your garlic and ginger and fry for 1 minute until fragrant
5. Add coriander, the rest of your cumin, and garam masala and fry for 20 seconds
6. Add chopped tomatoes, salt, and simmer for 15 minutes stirring occasionally
7. Take if your sauce and blend until smooth
8. Add sauce back to a pan and add tomato purée, cream, cooked chicken and allow to simmer for 10 minutes
9. Cook your rice for 10 minutes
10. Heat your naan for 2 minutes
11. Serve everything with chopped coriander for garnish

Skip the Indian takeout and cook up your very own version of the popular dish! 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. The Makhani sauce and chicken come together with the most incredible spice and flavor. No one will believe it's not take-out! Butter Chicken is one of my top five favorite Indian recipes.

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