Do you know what’s the most searched recipe worldwide?
“Butter Chicken”
But I didn’t that. So I thought when it is the most searched recipe, So I have to share this recipe. So I am gonna do a Butter chicken recipe like how I do it. I hope you like it.
Common Theory About Butter Chicken
Butter chicken has a lot of theories, conspiracy theories. The most common theory is that, at someone’s place, I won’t take the name. At someone’s place, there was a lot of leftover tandoori chicken, so he got tensed that if I reheat it in the tandoor, so it will dry out completely. So, what should we do? So he started tossing the leftover tandoori chicken, with or without the bone in some tomato sauce. In then later, due to the tandoori chicken being dry, he started adding more cream, ghee, and even butter for the richness. And that is a chicken with butter, it slowly became famous as butter chicken.
Butter chicken is not a historical dish considering, India’s recorded food history is around 4000-4500 years old. Butter chicken is around 60-70 years old. Because tomatoes came late to India and secondly butter chicken is the post-partition dish. And just because it was a mild dish, so it becomes chicken tikka masala and went to Britain. But it is a very recent dish in the Indian culinary history. And sometimes, I feel weird that this recent dish has eclipsed the 5000-year-old food history.
Steps For Butter Chicken Recipe
Equipment
- Tandoor/Pan/Oven
- Pan
Ingredients
First Marination
- 300 gm Chicken Pieces
- 1 tbsp Deggi Mirch Powder
- 1 tbsp Vinegar or Lemon
- 1 tbsp Ginger Paste
- 2 tbsp Garlic Paste
- Salt to taste
Second Marination
- 2 tbsp Mustard Oil
- 1 tbsp Deggi Mirch Powder
- 1 tbsp Turmeric Powder
- ½ tbsp Roasted Cumin Powder
- ½ tbsp Garam Masala Powder
- 1 tbsp Ginger Paste
- 2 tbsp Garlic Paste
- 1 tbsp Crushed Kasuri Methi
- 2 Cup Hung Curd
- Salt to taste
Butter Chicken Recipe
- 4-5 Tomatoes
- 2 Onion
- 5-6 Garlic Cloves
- 5-6 Green Cardamon
- 2 Cinnamon Sticks
- 4-5 Cloves
- 2 Piece of Mace
- 3-4 Kashmiri Red Chillies
- 1 Green Chilli
- 1 Bunch of Coriander Stems
- 10-15 Cashew Nuts
- 1 inch Ginger
- 1 tbsp Coriander Seeds
Instructions
First Marination
- We need to marinate chicken with salt, deggi mirch powder, vinegar (lemon), and ginger garlic paste.
- After marinating leave it for one hour in the fridge.
Second Marination
- Add mustard oil, deggi mirch powder, turmeric powder, salt, roasted cumin powder, garam masala powder, ginger paste, garlic paste, crushed Kasuri Methi, hung curd and mix well.
- Take out the first marination from the fridge and mix both. After mixing both again leave it for a minimum of 3 hours in the fridge.
- After that cook marinated chicken in tandoor, oven or grill in a pan. Select any method in which you are comfortable.
Butter Chicken Curry
- Now you will need to make a butter chicken curry and for that take a pan and add water chopped tomato, onion ginger, garlic, green cardamom, cinnamon, clove mace, coriander seeds, Kashmiri red chilies, green chili, bunch coriander stems, cashew and let it boil till it becomes soft. After that, make it’s pure.
- In a hot pan add two tbsp butter, one green chili finely chopped, 3-4 garlic chopped, 2 tbsp garlic paste, 1 tbsp ginger paste, 2 tbsp deggi mirch powder, add water as required. Cook till it turns fragrant.
- Next, pour the puree and cook for a few minutes then add cooked chicken pieces. Then cook together for 3-4 minutes.
- And in the last add 3-4 tbsp fresh cream and 1 tbsp crushed Kasturi methi and switch off the stove.
Notes
- When you are making butter chicken curry make sure you will taste the salt in it. Because of salt in already present in butter.
- If you want more creamy butter chicken gravy then add more cream.
- For best taste, my suggestion is to cook chicken pieces in tandoor because their smoky flavor gives a good taste.
- If you have leftover tandoori chicken then you put into it. Ideally, old tandoori chicken is sauteed and added. Then it gradually indulges in the gravy and getting interesting.
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