70 Butter Chicken (Murg Makhani)

Chicken Tikka Masala recently became the most popular dish in the UK overtaking fish and chips. That’s a remarkable achievement for a dish that has no home and was, almost certainly, a restaurant creation invented to satisfy with British palate. It’s an inoffensive, mildly spiced, creamy chicken dish and it captured the nation’s heart.

Dig deeper, though, and the dish does have an antecedent in India and that’s Butter Chicken or Murg Makhani. This dish is the real thing. A mixture o