Butter Chicken

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Ingredients

Chicken - 1 kg
Butter - 50 gm
Refined oil - 300 ml
Onion - 4 pc
Tomato - 4 pc
Ginger paste - 1 tablespoon
Garlic paste - 2 tablespoon
Cashew nuts - 40 gm
Yogurt - 100 gm
Kashmiri red chili powder - 2 teaspoon
Red chili powder - 1 teaspoon
Garam masala powder - 1 teaspoon
Kasoori methi - 1 tablespoon
Mace [Jayatri] - 1 pc
Cardamom - 4 pc
Coriander leaves - 4 tablespoon
Fresh cream - 4 tablespoon
Tomato ketchup - 1 tablespoon
Salt - As per taste

Butter Chicken

Butter chicken is a very popular North Indian chicken dish. Though little oily, but wonderful taste. Goes very well with rotis & naans

Steps

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1
50 mins

Preparation & Marination

- Roast kasoori methi for a minute and break it with finger before. This will produce very nice aroma.

Marination

- Mix chicken, 1 tbsp ginger paste, 1 tbsp garlic paste, 100g yogurt, 1 tsp Kashmiri chili powder, salt (as per taste). Mix them well & marinate for 30 minutes to 1 hour.

2
15 mins

Cooking steps 1

- Heat pan in medium flame
- Heat 4 tbsp oil in the pan.
- Once the oil is heated up, add 25g butter.
- When butter dissolves, add 4 cardamom & mace (jayatri) to it.
- Saute for 1 minute.
- Add chopped onion to the heated oil & saute for 2 minutes.
- Add chopped tomatoes.
- Add 1 tbsp garlic paste, add cashew nuts, add 1 tsp Kashmiri chili powder, 1 tsp red chili powder, salt (as per taste).
- Mix them well & saute for 2-3 minutes.
- Add 1/2 cup water, add 2 tbsp coriander leaves.
- Cover the pan and cook for 5 minutes on medium flame.
- Onion & tomatoes will become soft. Take them out and cool them in a plate. Stop, the flame.

3
15 mins

Cooking steps 2

- Take another pan and heat it on medium-high flame.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil, add marinated chicken to it.
- When water is released from chicken, cover the pan and cook for 7-8 minutes on low flame.
- Open the cover and dry up all water in chicken on high flame.
- Meanwhile, we will put the cooled gravy in a mixer-grinder and make fine paste.
- Fry for another 3-4 minutes till the chicken gets little color. Stop the flame.
- Take another pan, heat it on medium flame.
- Add gravy paste in pan.
- Add the fried chicken & mix them well.
- Saute for 2 minutes on medium flame.
- Add garam masala powder & kasoori methi.
- Add 1 tbsp tomato ketchup, mix them very well
- Cook for another 2 minutes on medium flame.
- Add fresh cream to chicken.
- Mix everything well and saute for 2-3 minutes.
- Add 15-20 g butter to the chicken.
- Add 1 cup water.
- Cover the pan and cook for 8-10 minutes on low flame.
- Butter chicken is ready. Stop the flame
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Add little butter on top.

Butter Chicken is best served hot. If you follow my recipe, the taste of butter chicken will be more than any top restaurant!

Salma Khatun

Salma Khatun

Aug 14, 2017

I love cooking and gardening. I am a YouTuber and runs the channel SalmaTheChef!