Easiest Way to Make Favorite Butter Chicken/Chicken Makhni

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, butter chicken/chicken makhni. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter Chicken/Chicken Makhni is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Butter Chicken/Chicken Makhni is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butter chicken/chicken makhni using 18 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Butter Chicken/Chicken Makhni:

1. Make ready 1 lb Chicken pieces
2. Get 1 tbsp Olive oil
3. Take 2 tbsps Butter
4. Take 1 Onion big
5. Take 2-3 Shallots
6. Make ready 1 cup Tomato puree
7. Get 2 Green chilli
8. Get 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
9. Take 3/4 cup Heavy cream
10. Take 1 tbsp Yogurt
11. Prepare 1/2 cup Water
12. Prepare 1 bay leaf
13. Get 2 cardamom pods
14. Get Cilantro -roughly chopped
15. Make ready Salt - as per taste
16. Make ready 2 tsps Garam masala
17. Get 1 tsp Turmeric
18. Take 1 Tbsps Chilli powder

Instructions to make Butter Chicken/Chicken Makhni:

1. Clean and marinate the chicken pieces with some salt,pepper and a pinch of turmeric.
2. To make Garam masala-Dry roast cloves,cardamom,star anise,bay leaf,cinnamon stick on medium heat and powder them and keep.
3. In a large sauce pan, heat some oil and butter.
4. Shallow fry the marinated chicken pieces until light brown and transfer to a paper towel to absorb the excess oil
5. In the same oil, pop some cumin seeds,bay leaf and cardamom.
6. On medium heat,Saute shallots,onions and ginger garlic paste till golden brown. Add some salt for quick browning!
7. Add green chilies and some turmeric powder. Saute well till the raw taste of onions are gone.
8. Now add chilly powder,garam masala, pepper and salt as required.
9. Mix the yogurt into this mixture on low flame. Now add little water to this.
10. Remove from stove and once cooled,blend this mixture to a fine paste.
11. Now heat some butter on the pan again on medium heat.
12. Add the tomato puree and stir for a min.
13. Pour the blended gravy paste to the tomato puree and stir continuously.
14. On low flame,add the heavy cream into the gravy and mix well to get a thick creamy consistency.
15. Now transfer the fried chicken pieces to the gravy and let it simmer another 5 mins.
16. Serve hot garnished with cilantro and heavy cream.

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