Butter Chicken (Chicken Makhni) Recipe by Food Fusion

Best Butter Chicken recipe. How you can make butter chicken at home without any problem. Recipe in English and Urdu #HappyCookingToYou

BUTTER CHICKEN RECIPE IN ENGLISH:

Ingredients:
Chicken Preparation:
• Yogurt ½ cup
• Red chili ½ tsp
• Coriander powder ½ tsp
• Cumin powder ½ tsp
• Salt 1 tsp or to taste
• Chicken boneless ½ kg
• Lemon juice 1-2 tbs
• Oil for shallow frying
Butter Gravy:
• Butter 2-3 tbs
• Oil 1 tsp
• Bay leaf 2
• Onion sliced 1 large
• Ginger garlic paste 1 tbs
• Cashew nuts 25 gms (Optional)
• Tomatoes chopped 3-4
• Tomato paste 2 tbs (Optional)
• Salt ½ tsp or to taste
• Cream 2-3 tbs
• Fenugreek leaves dried 1 tsp
• Whole spice powder ½ tsp
• Coriander 1-2tbs (chopped)

Directions:
-In a bowl add yogurt, red chili powder,coriander powder,cumin and salt, mix well.
-Add boneless chicken and lemon juice, mix well and marinate for 30 minutes.
-In a wok, add butter and oil (oil is added so that butter doesn’t get burned) heat it, add bay leaves and onion and sauté until onion are translucent.
-Add ginger and garlic paste and sauté for a minute.
-Add cashew nuts, tomatoes (chopped) and tomato paste (it is optional and added to enhance color) mix well. Cover and cook until tomatoes are cooked well.
-For chicken, take out marinated chicken and add it in skewers.
-Remove bay leaves from tomato gravy, add salt and mix well.
-Add tomato gravy in a blender/chopper and blend until it makes a fine puree. You can add water to make it fine.
-Now take sieve and strain puree. Strain very well.
-Now bring wok on the stove with gravy. Bring it to boil and add water if gravy is thick.
-Add cream and mix well.
-Add fenugreek dried leaves, whole spice powder and coriander (chopped).Let it simmer for 2 minutes. Butter gravy is ready.
-Shallow fry chicken skewers on medium low flame until done.
-Serve skewer with the butter gravy or add chicken to the gravy and mix well, garnish with cream and fenugreek leaves and serve.

Tips:
-If you don’t want to add chicken on skewers, directly shallow fry the chicken and add to the gravy.
-If using skewers, give coal dum for added aroma and enjoy.

Recipe in Urdu:

Ajza:
Chicken Preparation:
• Dahi ½ cup
• Lal mirch ½ tsp
• Dhania powder ½ tsp
• Zeera powder ½ tsp
• Namak 1 tsp or to taste
• Chicken boneless ½ kg
• Lemon juice 1-2 tbs
• Oil for shallow frying
Butter Gravy:
• Makhan 2-3 tbs
• Oil 1 tsp
• Tez paat 2
• Pyaz sliced 1 large
• Adrak lehsan paste 1 tbs
• Kaju 25 gms (Optional)
• Tamatar chopped 3-4
• Tomato paste 2 tbs (Optional)
• Namak ½ tsp or to taste
• Cream 2-3 tbs
• Meethi (sukhi) 1 tsp
• Garam masala ½ tsp
• Hara dhania 1-2tbs (chopped)

Directions:
-Bowl mein dahi,lal mirch,dhania powder,zeera powder aur namak dal ker ache tarhan mix ker lein.
-Boneless chicken aur lemon juice dal ker mix karein aur 30 minutes kliya marinate ker lein.
-Karhai mein makhan aur oil garam karein,tez paat aur pyaz dal ker pyaz ko naram hunay tak fry karein.
-Adrak lehsan paste dal ker saute karein.
-Kaju,tamatar (chopped) aur tomato paste (optional) dal ker ache tarhan mix karein.Dhak ker tamatar gul janay tak paka lein.
-Marinated chicken ko skewers per laga lein.
-Tamatar gravy sa tez paat nikal lein,namak dal ker mix ker lein.
-Tamatar gravy ko blender/chopper mein dal ker ache tarhan blend ker k puree bana lein.Pani bhi dal saktay han.
-Ab channi sa puree ko ache tarhna chaan lein.
-Gravy ko dubara chulhay per rakh k ubal anay tak paka lein,agar gravy garhe ho tou pani shamil ker saktay han.
-Cream dal ker mix ker lein.
-Meethi (sukhi),garam masala powder aur hara dhania (chopped) dal ker 2 minutes kliya halki ancch per paka lein.
-Butter gravy tayyar hai.
-Chicken skewers ko oil mein shallow fry ker lein.
-Skewer ko butter gravy k saath serve karein ya chicken ko gravy mein dal ker mix ker lein,cream aur meethi (sukhi) dal ker serve karein.

Tips:
-Agar app chicken ko skewers per lagana nahi chatay tou chicken ko shallow fry ker k gravy mein dal dein.
-Agar skewers use ker raha han tou koylaa ka dum bhi da saktay han.

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