Butter Chicken 🐔 Recipe (with less butter 🙂) #butterchicken #punjabifood #chickenrecipe #tasty #food

Butter Chicken Recipe
Butter Chicken also called as Murg makhani is one very famous and favorite dishes in any restaurant. The traditional way of making butter chicken recipe needs a lot of steps..here we will show you the easier version of making Butter Chicken at the comfort of your home.

Ingredients :
For Marination :
– 1/2 tsp Salt
– 1/4th tsp Turmeric
– 1/4th tsp Red chilli powder
– 2 tsp Ginger garlic paste.

For Gravy :
– 500 gm Boneless Chicken
– 1 big Onion
– 3 medium tomatoes
– 2 green chilies
– 1 inch ginger
– 10-12 Garlic cloves
– 12-14 Almonds/ Cashews
– 1 Tbsp Kasuri Methi
-2 tbsp Butter

Masala’s :
– 1 tsp Turmeric powder.
– 1 tsp Red Chili powder
– 1 tsp Jeera Powder
– 1 tsp Coriander powder.
– 2 tsp Garam masala.
-1/4th cup Tomato Ketchup
– 1/2 tsp Sugar (optional)
-Salt to taste

Method :
Preparing the Chicken :
– Take the boneless Chicken in a bowl
– Add Salt, Turmeric Powder, Red chili powder and Ginger garlic paste.
– Mix well and keep aside for 15 min at-least.
– Heat Some butter in a pan and cook the Chicken and keep aside.

Preparing the Gravy :
-Cut the veggies into smaller chunks, for Butter Chicken recipe we always take 1:2 ratio of onion to tomatoes ( i.e if we take 1 medium size onion we will take 2 medium sized tomatoes)
– In the same pan which we used to make the chicken add a little more Butter and add all the cut veggies and almonds/cashews.
– Cook them till they shrink and char.
-Let it cool and then make a fine paste out of it.
-Now in the same pan add more butter and the paste along with some water.
– Add salt, turmeric, chili powder, jeera powder, coriander powder, garam masala, ketchup, Sugar (optional) and mix very well.
-Add the Chicken and add water to get the desired consistency.
– Add Kasuri Meth as the final step give it a final mix and your delicious home made “Butter Chicken” recipe is ready to make your Lunch/Dinner exiting and special.

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