Butter chicken is the go-to dish when ordering Indian food. Increasingly, the dish has become less creamy and buttery and more oily in the neighborhood restaurants. What’s new is the addiction of amchur, which gives it a completely different taste and loses all its mellow, rich taste.
So, after a long, long time I decided to try my hand at making this recipe at home. I could recall a very specific taste of Butter Chicken that I wanted to achieve and here is what I came up with.
Butter Chicken Ingredients
250 Gms Boneless Chicken Breast
2 medium onions
4-5 garlic cloves
1/2 inch Ginger
1/2 cup Cashews
1 Kashmiri Chilli
2 Medium tomatoes
1 Packet Tomato Puree
1/2 packet of Amul Cream
1 tsp Garam Masala
1 tsp White Pepper Powder
1 tbsp Honey
1 Tsp Kasuri Methi
2 Tbsp Butter
To Make the Gravy
1. Heat 2 cups water and bring it to a boil
2. Add the cut Onions, Tomatoes, Garlic, Ginger, cashews, and the red chilli to the water and simmer for a few minutes or until the onions appear translucent
3. Drain the stock in a pot and grind the vegetables to a paste
To Make Butter Chicken
1. Clean the chicken and marinate with salt and pepper for at least a couple of hours
2. Heat the butter and add the ground paste to the butter
3. Cook the paste for a few minutes on medium heat
4. Add the marinated chicken pieces and toss in the gravy for a few minutes
5. Add the drained vegetable stock and cook for 10 minutes
6. Add a pinch on Kasuri Methi and Honey and mix it well
7. Add the cream and cook for a couple of minutes
Serve hot with Rice, Roti or Paratha.
Well . . . you don’t really need to think very hard to pair the dish with a movie. The movie that popped up without much effort. Chicken Khurana may not be butter chicken but it will keep you entertained as you relish this creamy Butter Chicken recipe. Omi, a lawyer in London, come back to his village in Punjab to escape a UK gangster who wants his money back. The famous family restaurant has since fallen in stature as the Grandfather can no longer remember the famous Chicken Khurana recipe, and thus begins the quest for the recipe to solve all that is wrong in Omi’s life. Enjoy your Butter Chicken with Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana.
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