Butter Chicken

This is our butter chicken video, one of the older videos, and honestly it was one of my favorites, who doesn’t like butter chicken, it tastes amazing, and you can make it hot, but you don’t have to, and I think anyone who likes Indian food will tell you they love butter chicken.

I would always encourage you to try to make this if you never had it before, as it is one of those dishes that is simply amazing!

A few things to note, when marinating the chicken you can add some plain fat free Greek yogurt, and when it comes to salt there is a low or no sodium salt you can use and it does make a difference.

Phase 1 Marinating the chicken

Ingredients for phase 1

Boneless chicken thighs

Salt

Garlic Powder (or minced garlic)

Ginger Powder (Or minced ginger)

Onion Powder (or minced onion)

(You can optionally add plain Greek yogurt)

Phase 1

  1. Cube up the chicken thighs.
  2. add the above spices and yogurt if your going to use it.
  3. Let this marinate between 20 minutes to 24 hours.
  4. If your going to add some hot peppers or spice the longer its marinated the hotter its going to be and the better flavor youll have!

Phase 2 Gravy part 1

Ingredients for Phase 2

  1. 2 Onions.
  2. Extra virgin olive oil.
  3. A whole garlic.
  4. Garam Masala.

Phase 2

  1. In a large frying pan put the heat on with some extra virgin olive oil let it heat up.
  2. Chop up the onions and garlic.
  3. Add the onions and garlic and we want to get the onion caramalized.
  4. Mix in the garam masala mix.
  5. Mix everything

Phase 3 Cooking the Chicken

This is simple and easy just fry up your chicken, get it fully cooked, you don’t want to be eating bad chicken.

Phase 4 Finishing up

Phase 4 ingredients

  1. Rice wine vinegar
  2. 2 cans of crushed tomatoes
  3. Half a box of butter
  4. Red pepper flakes
  5. Whipping cream

Phase 4

  1. In your pan with the carnalized onions, add some rice wine vinegar.
  2. Add in 2 cans of crushed tomatoes.
  3. Take this portion and add to a blender or food processor to make smooth and then replace back into the pan.
  4. Chop up the butter into smaller sticks and add it into the gravy and make sure the butter is melting down.
  5. Put the cooked chicken in.
  6. Add some red pepper flakes.
  7. Add some whipping cream in.
  8. Make sure to keep stirring.

This is basically it, there are other spices you can add, and you can make keep improving this, and this is a yummy base for making an amazing meal!

I would serve this with rice and some nan bread, and honestly it is an amazing meal! Enjoy Bon Appitite.