# Butter Chicken

A quick and easy butter chicken recipe that takes only 30 minutes to make and is better than takeout.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 large red onion
- 4 to 5 tomatoes roughly chopped
- oil
- garlic
- garam masala
- Kashmiri red chili
- turmeric
- cumin
- coriander powder
- salt
- cream
- sugar
- fenugreek leaves
- chicken cubed
- yogurt
- spices

## Instructions

1. Start by slicing one large red onion and roughly chopping four to five tomatoes.
2. Heat up oil in a pan.
3. Add in the garlic and onions and let that caramelize.
4. Add in your tomatoes and let that cook down until soft.
5. Add garam masala, Kashmiri red chili, turmeric, cumin, coriander powder, and salt.
6. Blend it all up.
7. Add it back to the pan.
8. Add some cream, sugar, and then fenugreek leaves.
9. Cube up the chicken.
10. Marinate the chicken with yogurt and the same spices as before.
11. Air fry the chicken for 12 minutes at 380 degrees.
12. Add the air-fried chicken back into the sauce.

## Equipment

- pan
- blender
- air fryer

## Source

- Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/18gdBoDT0Rk?si=NcQlS597pcZoyF5c
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/e7b54d95-d843-4c76-8c48-77f61d358958
- Extracted: 2026-04-17

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