Butter Chicken is a classic Indian recipe thats loved around the world. There exists a number of versions of butter chicken recipe that are somewhat spicy or sweeter. However its one of the most delicious recipe that could be enjoyed with Indian flat breads or anything similar to it.

Butter Chicken Masala

Ingredients:

Chicken                  -1kg
Butter                     -25gms for gravy and 75gms for frying
Onion                     -2 (Cut into cubes)
Tomato                   -4(Cut into cubes)
Capsicum                -1(Cut into cubes)
Coriander Powder  -1 tspn
Fennel Powder       -1 tspn
Red Chilly Powder -1 and 1/2 tspn
Pepper Powder       -1 tspn for marination and 1/2 tspn for gravy
Soya Sauce             -1 and 1/2 tspn
Corn Flour              -50gms
Ginger Garlic         -1 and 1/2 tspn each
Cashew paste         -100gms
Tomato Sauce        - 1/2 or 3/4th of a cup
Kasuri methi          -5-7gms
Salt                        -To taste


Method:

  • The first step is to marinate the chicken with redchilli powder, pepper powder, soya sauce,corn flour and ginger garlic.Leave it aside for around 30 minutes so that the flavour is infused well onto the chicken pieces.
  • The next process is to make a fine paste to prepare the gravy.For this melt some butter in a pan and saute onion, tomato and salt under high heat for 5 minutes. Then add on Coriander powder and fennel powder and saute well for 2 minutes in low flame.
  • keep aside this mixture  for cooling and grind it into a fine paste.
  • Now shallow fry the marinated chicken pieces in butter and remove it from pan.
  • To a Sauce pan, pour the prepared gravy which is in the form of paste and the fried chicken along with capsicum, pepper powder and tomato sauce and cook for around 10 minutes.
  • Finally add the Cashew paste and garnish it with kasuri methi before removing it from heat.

Butter Chicken Masala