Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken (murgh makhani). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have butter chicken (murgh makhani) using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
  1. Make ready To Marinate the Chicken:
  2. Get Chicken Breast
  3. Prepare ginger and garlic paste
  4. Make ready chilli powder
  5. Prepare garam masala
  6. Prepare turmeric
  7. Get cumin powder
  8. Get salt
  9. Prepare corriander powder
  10. Take lemon juice
  11. Take oil
  12. Prepare To make the base sauce:
  13. Take Onions
  14. Make ready Cashews Nuts
  15. Take Dried Chillies
  16. Take tomato paste
  17. Prepare Salt as per taste
  18. Take sugar
  19. Take Dry Spices(3 cloves, 1 star anise, 1/2 Cinnamon stick, 1 big elachi)
  20. Make ready cumin powder
  21. Prepare coriander powder
  22. Prepare red chilli powder (optional)
  23. Make ready butter
  24. Make ready double cream
Steps to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
  1. In a large bowl, whisk together lemon juice, oil,turmeric, garam masala, cumin powder,coriander powder, chilli powder, ginger& garlic paste. Add chicken and toss until fully coated. Let marinate for 1-2 hours. (preferable overnight)
  2. In a large pot over the medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter. Working in batches, add chicken and cook until golden all over, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate.
  3. Reduce heat to medium and melt 2 tablespoons butter. Add the dry chillies, Cashew nuts and diced onions.Cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add 300ml water and cook until fragrant.
  4. Once the onions cooked and water start to boil, take it off the heat. Drain all the water and blitz the onions and cashews nuts. Do not throw the water away. Keep it aside.
  5. Heat up some butter.Add the dry spices (as listed above in the ingredients list), cumin powder, coriander and red chilli powder. Cook until fragrant. Add the onions and cashew purée and tomato purée into the dry spices. Stir it and return chicken to sauce with same water that cooked onions and cashews nuts. Add salt n 1/2tsp sugar. Let simmer until the chicken is cooked through, about 8 minutes.
  6. Stir in double cream and remaining 2 tablespoons butter.
  7. Garnish with coriander and serve warm over rice with naan or Roti.

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