Chicken Makhani. "Chicken Makhani is one of my favorite Indian dishes. It is a full flavored dish that complements the chicken well. It can be made as mild or spicy as you wish by adjusting the cayenne.

Butter chicken or murg makhani (Hindi: मुर्ग़ मक्खनी) (pronounced [mʊrg ˈmək.kʰə.niː]) is a dish, originating in the Indian subcontinent, of chicken in a mildly spiced tomato sauce. Learn how to make Butter Chicken, a heavenly chicken gravy recipe by Chef Varun Inamdar. Butter Chicken is probably one of the most popular Indian chicken. You can have Chicken Makhani using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Makhani

It's of Rice.
Prepare of Boneless chicken.
Prepare of Vegetable oil.
You need 2 of white onions.
It's 2 tbsp of butter.
You need 2 tsp of lemon juice.
Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger.
Prepare 1 tbsp of garlic.
It's 2 tsp of garam masala.
It's 1 tsp of chili powder.
It's 1 tsp of cumin.
Prepare 1 of bay leaf.
You need 4 tbsp of Greek yogurt.
Prepare 150 ml of milk.
You need 150 ml of double cream.
You need 250 g of tinned tomatoes.
You need 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper.
You need 1 tbsp of brown sugar.
You need of Salt.
You need of Pepper.
You need of Parsley.

It tastes better than the chicken makhani at my favorite Indian restaurant! You can make this as mild or spicy as you wish by adjusting the cayenne. Serve with basmati rice and naan bread. Chicken Makhani: All in all it curried chicken and with some added fat, such as in most cases it is sour cream.

Chicken Makhani instructions

Finely chop the onions, ginger and garlic.
Blend the tinned tomatoes.
Heat vegetable oil in a wok. Sautee the onion until soft. Stir in the butter, lemon juice, ginger, garlic, 1tsp garam masala, chili powder, cumin, 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper and 1bay leaf. Continue to cook for 1min before adding the blended tomatoes then cook for a further 2mins, stirring frequently.
Stir in the milk, cream and yogurt. Reduce heat and simmer for 10mins, stirring frequently. Remove the bay leaf, add the brown sugar and stir. Season with salt and pepper before removing from heat and set aside.
Dice the chicken.
Heat vegetable oil in pan. Fry chicken for 10mins until golden brown. Reduce heat then season with 1tsp garam masala and 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper. Stir in a few spoonfuls of the curry sauce and simmer until the liquid has reduced and the chicken is fully cooked. Add the chicken to the wok and stir to ensure all chicken is coated in the curry sauce. Remain off heat until 10mins before ready to serve.
Cook the rice in salted water.
Mix parsley into rice. Serve rice and curry together.

The idea was to give a mouth feel and tame down heat as per the western taste. Murgh Makhani also known as Butter Chicken is a spicy tomato based curry cooked with chicken. Chicken cooked in a spiced tomato gravy. Incredibly flavor-packed, this popular Butter Chicken recipe (Murgh Makhani) is phenomenally delicious and rivals your favorite Indian restaurant! The Makhani sauce and chicken come together with the most incredible spice and flavor.