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Butter Chicken Recipe

Butter chicken recipe one of India’s favourite dish. You can find this chicken dish in almost all Indian restaurant menus, it is one the best dish in India I can say. We often try to experiment with different dishes when we go to any restaurant but again we say nothing can beat the taste of butter chicken. We often think we cannot make or it is impossible to make at home, then you are absolutely wrong. Making this at home is easy but has multiple steps, which you can’t skip. If you skip then you will not the taste of restaurants.

There are around 4 steps in making perfect butter chicken recipe. The first step is the marination. If you don’t marinate the chicken then the chicken will not become soft and would become rubber-like. So marination is always important. The second step is grilling the marinated chicken. Usually, in restaurants, they grill the chicken in a traditional tandoor. So if you have a traditional tandoor or electric tandoor then you can grill not that. And if you don’t have any of that, no worries you can still grill it on the grill pan, as did in the video. The third step is the gravy, butter chicken gravy is not very thick or runny. You need to have the gravy wherein the chicken pieces are covered with a layer of gravy and you should be able to see oil on top of the gravy. And the fourth step is the smokey flavour. It was Indian tradition to cook on fire using sticks or coal. Which used to give the dish a Smokey flavour.

Let’s quickly check out the video where I have shown all the steps to make the perfect butter chicken recipe

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mIh4HII_d6g

Let’s quickly check out the ingredients to make this mouth-watering Recipe

Ingredients

Step1

400 grams boneless chicken breast
1/2 cup hung curd
1+1/2 tablespoon red chilli powder
1 tablespoon garam masala powder
Salt as per your taste
1 tablespoon besan/ chickpea flour
1+1/2 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
1/2 tablespoon coriander powder
1/4 teaspoon black salt
1/2 tablespoon cumin powder
1 tablespoon mustard oil/ Sarson oil

Step 2

Piece of charcoal
1 tablespoon of ghee or clarified butter
Onions sliced

Step 3

3 tablespoon unsalted butter
2+1/2 tablespoon red chilli powder
5-6 tomato puree
1 tablespoon of Honey
2 tablespoon oil
Salt as per your taste
1 teaspoon garam masala
Kasuri methi powder
Fresh coriander leaves
Left out marination
Ginger garlic paste
1/2 teaspoon turmeric

Step by step instructions to make butter chicken recipe

Make slits on butter chicken and keep aside
Put curd, garam masala, red chili powder, Coriander powder, black salt, regular salt, chickpeas flour, ginger garlic paste, cumin powder, oil and mix well
Now add the slit chicken breast to the curd mixture and coat the chicken thoroughly
Keep it aside for minimum half and hour
After half an hour,take a grill pan or normal non stick pan and drizzle some vegetable oil over it
Now place the marinated chicken and cook each side of the chicken well
Take out the roasted chicken and cut into bite size pieces
Burn a charcoal and put it in a small still bowl and put 1 tablespoon of ghee or clarified butter. place it over the chicken and over the chicken for about 10 minutes
Heat oil in kadai or pig size pan, add butter to it
Add ginger garlic paste, fry the ginger garlic paste till the raw smells evaporates from it
Next add tomato puree, let it cool for sometime
Then add all the masalas including the left out marination and cook it the oil oozes out
Add chicken and cream and cook for another 10 minutes
To the chicken add honey and cook for another 5 minutes
Finally add chopped Coriander and the butter chicken is ready to be served

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