Butter Chicken Curry Recipe
There are many stories surrounding the origin of Butter Chicken. According to a documentary by the Discovery Channel, the butter chicken recipe was invented by a person working in the kitchen staff of a famous restaurant called Moti Mahal located in Daryaganj, the central region of Delhi.
Butter Chicken Recipe Ingredients:
- Chicken: 1 kg or 2.2 lb
- Onion paste: 1 cup
- Tomato puree: 2 cups
- Ginger Garlic paste: 2 tbsp
- Green Chili: 2 nos
- Meat Masala powder: 2 tbsp
- Red Chili powder: 1 tbsp
- Food Color: 1/4 tsp
- Garam Masala: 1 1/2 tbsp
- Dhania powder: 1 1/2 tbsp
- Kasoori Methi: 2 tbsp
- Butter: 100 gms
- Coconut paste (Optional) : 1/2 cup (Add more if you need more gravy)
- Turmeric Powder: 1/4 tsp
- Cinnamon (Dalchini), Cloves (Lavang) and Cardamom (Elaichi) powder: Make 1/4 tsp of powder with 2 sticks of cinnamon, 4 cloves and 2 cardamom
- Salt to taste
- Coriander for garnish
Butter Chicken Recipe Cooking Method:
Chicken Marination
- In a bowl add chicken, 1/2 cup onion paste, 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste, 1 tsp salt, food color and mix well. Keep aside for 1 hour.
Butter Chicken Curry or Gravy
- In a pan on medium heat add butter. When the butter melts add the remaining onion paste and saute for around 5 minutes till the raw smell of onion no longer exists.
- Add the green chili cut into long slices and ginger garlic paste to the mix and stir for 3 minutes.
- Add tomato puree and cook for another 6 minutes
- Then add 1/4 cup water.
- Add dhani powder, meat masala powder, garam masala powder, turmeric powder, chili powder and mix well.
- Now add the marinated chicken and cook for 15 minutes with a lid covering the pan on low heat.
- At this stage add cinnamon, cloves and cardamom powder, kasoori methi and coconut paste. If you want more gravy you can add more water and salt.
- Cook for another 10 minutes or so until the chicken is well cooked.
Bharti i just tried your butter chicken recipe.... it tastes amazing.... normally i use ready butter chicken masala to make this chicken but your recipe is from scratch and it tastes better than the ready made masala.... i will definately try more recipes..... keep them coming
Nice recipe, this is really yummy. There is nothing to argue about. Keep posting stuff like this i really like it. thank you for sharing this recipe..
Can you recommend a substitute for the green chili's? I don't have any on hand and would like to make the dish tonight.
There's a lot of tomato puree in the butter chicken recipe - surely it's not the canned stuff? What did other curry lovers use??
How many people does this serve?
It will serve 5 people
wats is meat masala powder.. plz name few..
Hi, I am a vegetarian but eager to cook for my husband who loves non-veg. I wanted to ask what kind of chicken pieces should I buy to make this recipe.
You can basically use any part of the chicken. Thigh pieces and breast pieces are preferable.
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