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

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken (murgh makhani). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

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