Easy Butter Chicken recipe. Smooth and silky butter chicken gravy. Homemade.

Easy Butter Chicken recipe. To get the smooth silky buttery gravy easy to make at home is right here. Check out the recipe with the very common ingredients used to prepare this delicious butter chicken recipe.

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Ingredients required to Prepare Easy Butter Chicken at Home

To marinate the chicken we need ~

To prepare the gravy for the butter chicken we need ~

• Onion 🧅 1 roughly chopped medium sized,
• 7 to 8 juicy Tomatoes 🍅 medium-sized,
• 5 to 6 Garlic gloves finely chopped,
• 1 green chili,
• Cashews 1/4 cup,
• 5 tablespoons of Butter 🧈 ,
• Tomato ketchup 1 tablespoon,
• 1/4 cup of fresh cream,
• Fenugreek leaves 🍃 2 teaspoons,
• Salt as per taste,
• Sugar 2 teaspoons,
• Fenugreek leaves 1/2 a teaspoon (powdered form)
• Distilled white vinegar 2 teaspoons

Whole spices for the gravy ~

• Dry red chili 1🌶,
• 1 bay leaf 🍃 broken,
• 1/2 inch of cinnamon stick,
• 7 to 8 Green cardamoms,
• 1 Black cardamom,
• 1/2 teaspoon of fenugreek leaves 🍃 (powdered form)

For garnishing the butter chicken we need ~

• Lightly whipped cream
• Some fenugreek leaves 🍃 powdered form to sprinkle on the top.

Total Cook Time ~

40 to 45 minutes

Short Summary on how to prepare Butter Chicken at home. Easy and delicious.

To start with the recipe we need to chop the boneless chicken pieces into small to medium cuts. I have cut the pieces a little longer in shape somewhat like stripes perfect for frying.

Fry these chicken pieces in 4 to 5 tablespoons of oil for few minutes or until they are cooked well on both sides. Read more Below…

To prepare the buttery gravy for the recipe. Into the same saucepan into the same leftover oil put some whole spices like green chili, dry red chili, green cardamoms, black cardamom, bay leaf, and a small piece of cinnamon stick, and sauté with some chopped onions, few finely chopped garlic cloves, a handfuls of raw cashews, teaspoons of fenugreek leaves and sauté these sometime, Then add roughly chopped juicy tomatoes 🍅 into it and mix. Sprinkle some salt, sugar and then cook this mixture until tomatoes are softened and mushy.

Then allow the mixture to completely cool and prepare a smooth purée out of it. Strain this purée along with some water. Pour the prepared purée back to the same pan and heat it up. Add 4 to 5 tablespoons of butter and mix. Add a tablespoon of tomato ketchup, Sprinkle some salt as per taste, and mix. Then sprinkle 1/2 a teaspoon of garam masala powder and some fenugreek leaves 🍃 powdered form and white vinegar 2 teaspoons into it and mix. Cook 1 minute and then add the fried chicken pieces. Cook 1 minute again and add fresh cream into it. Finally, mix and let it cook sometimes.

Once done cooking these✔️ garnish with some lightly whipped cream and sprinkle some fenugreek leaves 🍃 powdered form on the top and enjoy hot with any Naan 🫓 roti or rice / fried rice.

Points to remember while you prepare Butter Chicken recipe ~

• Sauté and fry the onions and the chopped garlics well or until they turns translucent and cooked well to remove any rawness out of it. Before you add the tomatoes into  to it.
• Cut the chicken into stripes for better and frying.
• Fry the chicken pieces well on both sides before putting into the gravy/curry
• Strain out the puree with some water for better taste and buttery smooth texture just like the restaurants serves 🙂
• If you don’t have vinegar you may skip. It should be still yum curry 🙂
• You may use boneless or with bones chicken for preparing this recipe. Also you may use chicken breasts instead of chicken thighs 🙂 Hope this helps.
• Garnish the Butter Chicken with some lightly whipped cream just before you serve. It looks gorgeous and yum 🙂

Step By Step Directions to prepare Butter Chicken at Home ~

Marinating and frying the chicken ~

Thoroughly wash and clean the boneless chicken pieces cut into stripes or small pieces easy to fry

Marinate chicken with Red Chili powder, salt, mustard oil, ginger, and garlic paste.

Mix nicely using hands and keep these marinated for 20 minutes or until we prepare the gravy for the chicken

Into 5-6 tablespoons of oil fry these chicken pieces nicely on both sides, until these are well cooked. Keep aside for later use.

Preparing the Gravy for the butter Chicken ~

Into the same saucepan in the leftover oil add 1 green chili, 1 dry red chili, a few green cardamoms, 1 black cardamom, 1/2 inch of cinnamon stick, and 1 broken bay leaf.

Quickly stir and sauté these…

Then immediately add 1 medium chopped onion, 5 to 6 garlic cloves finely chopped, and 1/4 cup of raw cashews in it and stir fry these for a few seconds.

Next, add the roughly chopped tomatoes, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 2 teaspoons of sugar into it and mix to fry.

Cover and cook the juicy tomatoes until they turn mushy and soft.

Allow to cool the mixture completely then grind to form a smooth paste out of it.

Strain the mixture along with some water nicely so that without wasting anything we can just discard some skin of the tomatoes and some coarsely ground spices.

Now the leftover is just the smooth paste of the ingredients that we used.

Pour the smooth paste into the saucepan and heat it up.

Then add 5 tablespoons of butter and stir well.

Sprinkle 1/2 a spoon of garam masala powder, 1 tablespoon of tomato ketchup,

1/2 a teaspoon of fenugreek leaves powdered form, and

White vinegar 2 teaspoons and mix.

Now add the fried chicken pieces into it,

Sprinkle some salt as per taste and cook in low flame for 1 or 2 minutes.

Next add fresh cream 1/4 cup.

Mix and cook sometime and here is your smooth, silky yummy Butter Chicken Gravy is just hot and ready to serve and enjoy.

Garnish with some lightly whipped cream at the top and sprinkle some fenugreek leaves to decorate.

Enjoy this butter chicken gravy with Roti, Naan, Paratha plain rice, or fried rice. You are going to love it I am sure 🙂

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Nutrients ~

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