Saturday 25 February 2012

Butter Chicken / Murgh Makhani Recipe



My mom taught me to make two chicken curries before my wedding; one was this Butter Chicken and another was Kashmiri Chicken…. Even after all these years these two curries are my favorite… whenever we have guests I make either one of these if I am serving an Indian course…. This is not the authentic way of making butter chicken, but a version which is a lot easier and healthier… Usually when I make this I only add 2 tbsp butter in total instead of ¼ cup… …  This recipe goes really well with Indian breads or rice….   


Butter Chicken / Murgh Makhani
(Adapted from Mrs. B. F. Varughese's Recipes for All Occasions)
Ingredients:
Chicken pieces- 1kg (I use boneless chicken)
Tomatoes - 250gm
Salt -1 tsp
Soya sauce – 1 tbsp
Lime juice -1 tbsp
Salted butter -1/4 Cup + 1 tbsp
Sugar-3/4 Teaspoon
Garlic- 2 tbsp
Ginger- 2tbsp
Chilly powder-  2 tbsp

Method:
  • Grind together garlic, ginger and chilly powder using soya sauce. Add salt and lime juice to this and apply this on the cleaned chicken and keep aside for 1 hour. Steam it till cooked. [or you can microwave for 4 minutes on medium power].
  •  Blend tomatoes in a mixer with little water and strain. Takeout the cooked chicken pieces from stock. In a flat non-stick frying pan, put 1/4-cup butter and when it melts. Place the chicken pieces in it and fry both sides till brown. Add the stock, tomato pulp, salt and sugar and when the gravy thickens, add remaining butter and serve hot.


Murgh Makhani (Butter chicken)

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9 comments:

  1. This sounds so good. I love chicken.

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  2. Looks nice, great to have option and make healthier butter chicken!

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  3. Awesome recipe dear. Bookmarked

    Aarthi
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  4. very delicious and tempting chicken !!

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  5. Mmm, I love butter chicken! I always get it when I go out to my fave indian restaurant! I'm totally going to have to make this at home, soon!

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  6. Love the butter chicken. It was our regular restaurant order :)
    This looks very delicious!!

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  7. I really love your style of cooking butter chicken

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  8. my favorite Indian curry..

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