Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken makhani. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Chicken Makhani is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Chicken Makhani is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken makhani using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Makhani:
- Get Rice
- Make ready Boneless chicken
- Prepare Vegetable oil
- Make ready 2 white onions
- Take 2 tbsp butter
- Get 2 tsp lemon juice
- Get 1 tbsp ginger
- Take 1 tbsp garlic
- Take 2 tsp garam masala
- Prepare 1 tsp chili powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 4 tbsp Greek yogurt
- Get 150 ml milk
- Prepare 150 ml double cream
- Prepare 250 g tinned tomatoes
- Get 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Take 1 tbsp brown sugar
- Prepare Salt
- Prepare Pepper
- Take Parsley
This is a simple home version of butter chicken, also known as 'murgh' or 'chicken makhani,' a popular dish in Indian restaurants. This is best served with naan, an Indian bread, or you can also serve this with basmati rice. This Chicken Makhani Recipe is deliciously aromatic and velvety in texture. You can skip the restaurant now as this famous Indian Butter Chicken recipe can be made easily at home.
Steps to make Chicken Makhani:
- 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
Best served with basmati rice and warm flatbread. This is a family recipe of a coworker of mine that is from India. Perfect combination of spice and heat, and the chicken comes out tender, not dry. Some ingredients, however, can only be found at an Indian grocery store, but well worth the visit. It needs some form of cream or yogurt I think to be a Makhani.
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