Steps to Prepare Favorite Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, murgh makhani - butter chicken 🐓. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Murgh Makhani also known as Butter Chicken is a spicy tomato based curry cooked with chicken. 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. Delicious Butter Chicken By Our Grandpa for Orphan Kids. This is a simple home version of butter chicken, also known as 'murgh' or 'chicken makhani,' a popular dish in Indian restaurants.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook murgh makhani - butter chicken 🐓 using 33 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:

1. Prepare For marination
2. Take 2 tbsp yoghurt
3. Get 1 pinch salt
4. Get 1 tbsp lemon juice
5. Make ready 2-3 cloves garlic (paste form)
6. Make ready 2 tbsp ginger paste
7. Get 1 tsp garam masala
8. Make ready 1 tsp chicken masala
9. Get 1 tsp coriander-cumin powder
10. Get 2 tbsp red chilli powder (it has to be kashmiri red chilli powder)
11. Take 400 g boneless chopped chicken
12. Make ready For the gravy
13. Make ready 3-4 tbsp butter
14. Make ready 2 tomatoes (roughly chopped)
15. Take 2 medium sized onions (roughly chopped)
16. Take 2 green chillis (roughly chopped)
17. Take 5-8 cashew nuts
18. Make ready 3-4 green cardamon pods
19. Make ready 3-4 cloves
20. Take 5-6 curry leaves
21. Make ready 2 cinnamon sticks
22. Prepare 2 tbsp garam masala
23. Make ready 2 tbsp chicken masala
24. Get 3 tbsp red chilli powder (Kashmiri)
25. Make ready Salt (as per taste)
26. Prepare 1 tsp kasuri methi (fenugreek)
27. Make ready 2 tbsp thick cream
28. Take About 1 cup water for the liquid puree
29. Get 1 tsp sugar (you can substitute it with honey - but not too much)
30. Take For garnishing
31. Get Some coriander leaves - chopped tiny (optional)
32. Prepare 1 pinch fenugreek
33. Get 1 tsp cream

Murgh Makhani is not the same thing as the Chicken Tikka Masala,; both the recipes look similar and uses marinated grilled chicken in the sauce, but the base sauce for the two recipes are quite different. In India this dish is usually made with bone-in chicken and outside of India boneless. Creamy, tangy and rich tomato sauce gravy coats the marinated and fried chicken pieces to become this indulgence of Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani. Over time, numerous chefs have attempted to emulate the rich buttery sauce, and flavours vary slightly between restaurants.

Instructions to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken 🐓:

1. For marinating: The process can go through two marination steps, but I just did one. - Take a bowl, add in the chopped chicken pieces. You can choose to go for chicken with bone as this dish can be boneless or with bone. Add ginger paste, garlic paste, garam masala, chicken masala, red chilli powder, salt and lemon juice. Mix well and set it aside for 20-30minutes. I set it aside for 1 hour, you can leave it overnight too (in the fridge 😉)
2. To make the tandoor chicken: - After marination, take a frying pan. Pour in some oil enough to fry the chicken but not too much. Place the chicken pieces in the pan and turn them to the other side when you think it might have cooked for quite some time (may be about 7 minutes). Use low flame. Keep turning them until they are brownish (light brown). Once ready, take the pieces out into a bowl.
3. Use the same frying pan, add in cardamon pods, cinnamon sticks, cloves, curry leaves and sauté. Add ginger garlic paste. Once you start smelling the garlic, add in the onions. Let it fry for some minutes, all using medium flame. Add in the chopped tomatoes, green chillis and butter, you can add tomato puree too. Add garam masala, chilli powder, chicken masala, salt, cashew nuts and water. Mix, cover and let it cook for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, let it cool.
4. Pour the mixture in step 3 into a grinder and grind. Once it's all mixed and ground, sieve it in order to get rid of the coarse spices and tomato skin/seeds. Also remember butter chicken gravy has to be velvety smooth. You can use a hand grinder too but a mixer grinder is the best choice.
5. Add butter 😁to the same frying pan. Add some garlic paste. I used grated garlic (last minute 😁). Pour in the liquid puree and let it cook for about 20minutes. Add in the tandoor chicken pieces, sugar, coriander leaves and salt if it's not as per your taste yet. Sprinkle in fenugreek, and add in thick cream. Stir and let it cook for another 10 minutes
6. Serve hot and eat quickly 😜. For plating, take a bowl and fill it with gravy and the chicken pieces on top. Take some bit more gravy and pour it over the chicken pieces. Sprinkle fenugreek and coriander leaves. Eat with Naan or rice.

Creamy, tangy and rich tomato sauce gravy coats the marinated and fried chicken pieces to become this indulgence of Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani. Over time, numerous chefs have attempted to emulate the rich buttery sauce, and flavours vary slightly between restaurants. This recipe is by Gordon Ramsey, and here is what he has to say about it: Gordon: "Butter chicken, or murgh makhani, was one of the first dishes I tasted when I went. Make this delicious butter chicken recipe by best selling cookbook author Dan Toombs aka The Curry Guy. One thing I know is that when butter chicken is on the evening menu, the whole family returns from where they are to come home for a curry feast.

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