# Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken is a heavenly chicken gravy recipe that is a popular Indian chicken dish.

- Servings: 5 servings
- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 300 gms Chicken breast boneless
- 1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
- 1 tbsp Red chilli powder
- to taste Salt
- Oil
- 500 gms roughly slit tomatoes
- 100 gms roughly cut onions
- 1 tbsp garlic paste
- 50 gms cashew
- 1 tsp kasoori methi
- 0.5 tsp garam masala
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp kashmiri chilli powder
- 5 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp cream
- 2 tbsp malt vinegar
- 1.5 tbsp White Vinegar

## Instructions

1. Marinate the chicken pieces with garlic paste, ginger paste, red chili powder, and salt.
2. Let the chicken marinate for 15-20 minutes.
3. Heat some oil in a pan.
4. Once the oil is medium hot, start frying the marinated chicken pieces until almost done.
5. Transfer the cooked chicken pieces into another bowl.
6. Roughly cut the onion.
7. In the same pan where chicken was cooked, add the chopped onion.
8. Add a little bit of oil and a spoonful of butter to the pan with onions.
9. Lightly sweat the onions.
10. Add roughly cut tomatoes and cashew nuts to the pan.
11. Add some water.
12. Add garlic paste, salt, malt vinegar, sugar, garam masala powder, and red chili powder.
13. Evenly mix the mixture.
14. Let the mixture simmer for at least 15 to 20 minutes until it becomes nice and mushy.
15. Turn off the flame and transfer the mixture into another container.
16. Use a hand blender to churn the mixture into a fine puree.
17. Strain the puree back into the same pan, pressing as much as possible to ensure minimal wastage.
18. Reheat the gravy.
19. Add butter to the gravy.
20. Add some cream.
21. Add the chicken.
22. Finally, add the crushed kasuri methi.
23. Let the gravy simmer for 5 to 7 minutes.
24. Garnish with fresh cream and some kasuri methi before serving.

## Equipment

- pan
- mixer grinder
- hand blender
- sieve

## Tips

- This is a one-pot recipe.
- Ensure the gravy is nice, smooth, and buttery by pressing as much as possible while straining to minimize wastage.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03U45jFxOI&pp=ygUVYnV0dGVyIGNoaWNrZW4gcmVjaXBl
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/0e8d7b12-c574-4a57-840b-82b1ebb1d176
- Extracted: 2025-12-21

Extracted from the video by Clip Recipe (https://www.cliprecipe.com). Quantities and steps are as stated or shown in the video. Site guide for agents: https://www.cliprecipe.com/llms.txt