![]() While the chicken is marinating you can get started on the gravy. ![]() Mix well and let it marinate for a couple of hours or even over night. Marinate the pieces of chicken in dahi along with the ginger garlic paste, lime juice, and a teaspoon of each of the spices (cumin, coriander, red chilli, garam masala and turmeric powders) along with the mustard oil. Salt to taste (ideally a teaspoon or so )ġ Piece of coal (if you don’t have any coal it’s ok skip that step) I was really fortunate to have my best friend be so kind and generous to come and drop off some coal, mustard oil and kasuri methi so I could actually make this dish.Ģ50 grams of Boneless Chicken cut into small piecesĤ Large Tomatoes Cut into half or finely choppedġ Cinnamon Stick ( I used a teaspoon of cinnamon powder )ġ Teaspoon Crushed Kasuri Methi (Fenugreek leaves )ġ Teaspoon Cream (totally optional I didn’t add any to mine)ġ Teaspoon Sugar (Totally optional I didn’t add any to mine) Sadly not everyone has easy access to a piece of coal including myself but I do think that smokey flavour at the end just adds another element to it. I think all the ingredients play their own role but the three crucial ones for me are mustard oil ( it just enhances that chicken flavour ) Kasuri methi ( again it has a distinct flavour that really rounds up the chicken ) and the third one is the coal. Most people will say Butter and Chicken of course but I think those are obvious ingredients more than integral. Since then this dish has become the face of Indian cuisine world over and had the British even adapt it to make their version of Chicken Tikka Masala ( but more on that a little later in this post). So not only did he figure out what to do with the leftover tandoori chicken but he also helped invent the stellar tandoori chicken itself. It’s been said that he actually worked at a tandoor shop in Peshawar called Mukkey Da Dhaba and helped create the dish Tandoori Chicken. It was the genius creation of Kundan Lal Gurjal who operated the hugely popular restaurant Moti Mahal in Delhi in 1948 or 1950. Leftover chicken cooked in a tandoor tends to dry out completely and in a bid to salvage his leftover tandoori chicken that did not sell, he tossed in tomatoes butter and other ingredients to try and make it flavour moist chicken gravy and that’s how this dish was created. It’s been said that this was a dish created by a chef who was in a dilemma and didn’t know what to do with his left over tandoori chicken. ![]() You’d think this was an ancient recipes passed down from generation to generation but the truth is, it’s quite a recent development and shockingly trumps the entire Indian culinary heritage in terms of popularity. It might have the most number of searches and to the Western world when you think of Indian food a Butter Chicken or Chicken Makhanwala or Chicken Makhani is one of the first dishes you associate with it. Butter Chicken is so popular it’s one of the most googled recipes on the internet along with Biryani. It has that perfect balance of sweet and spicy without either flavour over powering the other. This mildly spicy with its subtle tanginess and velvet gravy is a dish is made with butter, ghee, sometimes or often enough cream and a host of other ingredients that are so rich the end result is just beautiful. Delhi loves their butter chicken and so does Punjab. This rich buttery chicken gravy dish is a hit in North India. I had been hankering to make this butter chicken or Murgh Makhani recipe for ages but didn’t have all the essential ingredients so when I finally did I couldn’t resist! A Butter Chicken Recipe is one that everyone should have and today it’s my turn to share with you one of the easiest simple butter chicken recipes. It’s the most searched recipe on the internet and with good reason.
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