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

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, butter chicken (murgh makhani). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani):
  1. Prepare To Marinate the Chicken:
  2. Make ready Chicken Breast
  3. Take ginger and garlic paste
  4. Take chilli powder
  5. Get garam masala
  6. Prepare turmeric
  7. Take cumin powder
  8. Get salt
  9. Get corriander powder
  10. Get lemon juice
  11. Get oil
  12. Get To make the base sauce:
  13. Get Onions
  14. Get Cashews Nuts
  15. Take Dried Chillies
  16. Take tomato paste
  17. Prepare Salt as per taste
  18. Prepare sugar
  19. Get Dry Spices(3 cloves, 1 star anise, 1/2 Cinnamon stick, 1 big elachi)
  20. Take cumin powder
  21. Make ready coriander powder
  22. Take red chilli powder (optional)
  23. Prepare butter
  24. Get 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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