Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, murgh makhani - butter chicken π. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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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. This is a simple home version of butter chicken, also known as 'murgh' or 'chicken makhani,' a popular dish in Indian restaurants.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook murgh makhani - butter chicken π using 33 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken π:
- Make ready For marination
- Prepare 2 tbsp yoghurt
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Prepare 2-3 cloves garlic (paste form)
- Take 2 tbsp ginger paste
- Take 1 tsp garam masala
- Take 1 tsp chicken masala
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander-cumin powder
- Take 2 tbsp red chilli powder (it has to be kashmiri red chilli powder)
- Make ready 400 g boneless chopped chicken
- Prepare For the gravy
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp butter
- Take 2 tomatoes (roughly chopped)
- Get 2 medium sized onions (roughly chopped)
- Make ready 2 green chillis (roughly chopped)
- Get 5-8 cashew nuts
- Take 3-4 green cardamon pods
- Take 3-4 cloves
- Take 5-6 curry leaves
- Prepare 2 cinnamon sticks
- Get 2 tbsp garam masala
- Take 2 tbsp chicken masala
- Take 3 tbsp red chilli powder (Kashmiri)
- Take Salt (as per taste)
- Make ready 1 tsp kasuri methi (fenugreek)
- Make ready 2 tbsp thick cream
- Get About 1 cup water for the liquid puree
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar (you can substitute it with honey - but not too much)
- Make ready For garnishing
- Make ready Some coriander leaves - chopped tiny (optional)
- Get 1 pinch fenugreek
- Make ready 1 tsp cream
Murg Makhani or Chicken Butter Masala probably the most preferred Indian chicken dishes popular with all because of its moderate taste and pleasantly rich. In India this dish is usually made with bone-in chicken and outside of India boneless. Butter Chicken, or Murgh Makhani, is a classic Indian chicken recipe made with tender juicy chicken pieces cooked in creamy, mildly spiced tomato sauce. Traditionally served with rice, Murgh Makhani is meant to be eaten with.
Instructions to make Murgh makhani - Butter Chicken π:
- 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 π)
- 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.
- Use the same frying pan, add in cardamon pods, cinnamon sticks, cloves, curry leaves and sautΓ©. 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.
- 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.
- Add butter πto the same frying pan. Add some garlic paste. I used grated garlic (last minute π). 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
- Serve hot and eat quickly π. 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.
Authentic murgh makhani will always have a smoky undertone, which traditionally comes from cooking the chicken in a tandoor or clay oven. But since we are trying to recreate that flavour in our kitchen, we'll smoke the dish right at the end with a piece of charcoal or. This rich, buttery, creamy chicken needs no introduction. There is a very good reason why butter chicken is one of the most loved Indian dishes: it's pretty darn delicious. This authentic Indian butter chicken (murg makhani) recipe is the real deal with a traditional blend of common Indian spices, yogurt, and butter.
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