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Butter Chicken (Makhan Wala Murgh)

Butter Chicken
About Butter Chicken

Butter chicken is one of the most popular Indian food, Punjabi food to be precise, in the west. Butter chicken is chicken cooked in creamy buttery curry sauce.

 Ingredients

1.5 lb chicken (chopped 1 - ½ inch cubes)
3 tablespoon butter
¾ cup tomatoes (chopped finely)
1 onion (chopped finely)
¼ cup cashew (grounded smoothly)
¼ cup almond (grounded smoothly)
1 - 2 teaspoon red chili powder (according to taste)
1 teaspoon ginger paste
1 teaspoon garlic paste
2-3 inch piece of cinnamon stick (Dal Chini)
¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
2/3 teaspoon salt or salt to taste

Optional:
½ cup cream

 
 Preparation
1 Heat 2 teaspoon butter in medium heat and fry onions and cinnamon sticks till onion turns transparent.
2 Add turmeric, chilly, ginger and garlic paste, salt and a little water. Heat few more seconds with continuous stirring.
3 Add tomatoes and heat few more seconds with continuous stirring
4 Add grounded cashew and almond paste and some more water to make it into thick gravy. (Add more or less water while cooking to get according to your preference for consistency of gravy.)
5 When the mixture starts to boil, add the chicken and cook until it is fully cooked
6 Before you take chiken off the heat, add rest of the butter over it.
7 Serve hot with any Indian breads or basmati rice.
Nutritional Analysis

Total Calories (kilo calories)

384.5

19

Total Calories from Fat (kilo calories)

255.4

 

Total Fat (g)

28.9

44

Total Saturated Fat (g)

9.7

48

Total Transfat (g)

4.1

 

Cholesterol (mg)

101.8

34

Sodium (mg)

860.4

36

Carbohydrate (g)

8.0

3

Dietary Fiber (g)

2.3

9

Sugar (g)

2.4

 

Protein (g)

24.0

 

Vitamin A (IU)

845.9

17

Vitamin C (mg)

7.6

13

Calcium (mg)

48.6

5

Iron (mg)

2.0

11

A typical serving of butter chicken has about 400 kilo calories without addtional optional cream.
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