Recipe: Appetizing Butter chicken curry

Butter chicken curry. Tender chicken cooked in a rich, fragrant tomato-based curry sauce makes the perfect butter chicken. Perfect served with steamed rice and naan bread. Combine plain yogurt, spices, tomatoes, ginger and garlic in a blender.

So grilled tandoori chicken got mixed with some tomato curry, butter and cream and a star was born. WHY IS IT CALLED BUTTER CHICKEN. Created by Kundan Lal Gujral, you may notice that Butter Chicken (known as murgh makhani — chicken with butter), is similar to British tikka masala. You can cook Butter chicken curry using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Butter chicken curry

Prepare of Cumin seeds.
Prepare of Chicken.
Prepare of Onion.
You need of Garlic granulates or paste.
It's of Ginger granules or paste.
You need of Chilli powder.
It's of Tomato.
You need of Garam masala.
Prepare of Tumeric.
It's of Self raising flour.
You need of Greek yoghurt.
It's of Coriander.

Prepared in a buttery gravy with the addition of cream gives the curry sauce a silky smooth rich texture. This is a rich dish with a medium hot taste, a good way to introduce curry to those who don't normally eat curry. The chicken is marinated in yogurt and finished in cream. Made the day before eating it is easy to remove the excess fat.

Butter chicken curry step by step

Buttertfly chicken then marinade with 1 tbsp garlic, ginger, salt, tumeric.
Fry onions garlic and 1tbsp cumin seeds in oil, add fresh or tinned tomatos.
Add 500ml water, 1tbsp garlic granules, ginger, garam masala and salt, 1.5 tbsp chilli powder depending on how spicy you want it. Cook for 10-15 until thickens then blend smooth.
Seive out once finished and reheat later or keep on a simmer.
Cover chicken in egg then add bread crumbs and fry in some oil. Slice into segments to serve.
For naan bread mix together 1.75 cup of self raising flour and 1 cup of Greek yoghurt and chopped coriander. Mix until dough like texture then press into 5 or 6 naans. Add chopped garlic on top and fry in some oil, once golden remove and add butter on top.

Simple to cook, this is my wifes favorite curry. This Easy Indian-Style Butter Chicken Curry is fantastic with hot basmati rice. You can also serve it with fresh roti or naan to soak up the yummy sauce. If you have an Instant Pot, that is my favorite way to cook basmati rice. Stir the marinated chicken pieces into the sauce in the skillet.