Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, butter chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Butter Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Butter chicken or murg makhani (pronounced [mʊrg ˈmək.kʰə.niː]) is a dish of chicken in a spiced tomato, butter and cream sauce. It originated in the Indian subcontinent. Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) is one of the most popular curries in the world and yet happens to Butter Chicken is one of the few exceptions.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have butter chicken using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken:

1. Get Marinade
2. Prepare 1 1/2 lb chicken thigh
3. Take 1/2 cup plain yoghurt
4. Get 1 1/2 tbsp minced garlic
5. Prepare 1 tbsp minced ginger
6. Take 2 tsp garam masala
7. Take 1 tsp turmeric
8. Get 1 tsp ground cumin
9. Get 1 tsp red chilli powder
10. Prepare 1 tsp salt
11. Make ready Sauce
12. Take 2 tbsp oil
13. Prepare 2 tbsp ghee
14. Get 1 onion, diced
15. Get 1 1/2 tbsp minced garlic
16. Prepare 1 tbsp minced ginger
17. Make ready 1 tsp coriander
18. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp garam masala
19. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
20. Make ready 14 oz crushed tomatoes
21. Get 1 tsp salt
22. Take 1 tsp red chilli powder
23. Make ready 1 cup heavy cream
24. Make ready 1 tbsp sugar

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. Butter Chicken is one of my top five favorite Indian recipes.

Steps to make Butter Chicken:

1. Combine all marinade ingredients in a large gallon plastic bag, mixing thoroughly. Chop chicken into bite size pieces and marinate overnight.
2. Heat oil in large saucepan, then add chicken. Stir fry for about five minutes, then remove from pan and set aside
3. In same pan, heat ghee and add onions, cooking until they sweat. Add garlic and ginger, saute until aromatic.
4. Add coriander, garam masala, and cumin and saute for a minute, then add tomatoes, chilli powder, and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Remove pan from heat, then use a stick blender or regular blender to puree sauce.
6. Return blended sauce to pan, then add cream and sugar. Return chicken and juices to sauce and combine. Simmer for another 10 minutes, then serve.

It's simplified and cooked all in one pan and goes great with a side of rice or naan! Ever since moving to Alexandria, Virginia we've been. A delicious chicken dish that can be made as hot or as mild as you wish - a perfect meal for curry lovers who want to keep it simple. Butter chicken is reminiscent to chicken tikka masala but the difference is that while Tikka Masala is a bit more complex and this tastes more buttery with a delicious tomato based Indian gravy. Butter chicken is an Indian dish that originated in Delhi.

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