Name: Butter Chicken (Murg Makhani)
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 5 g ground cumin; 5 g paprika; 90 g butter or ghee; 680 g boneless, skinless, chicken leg, cut into 2.5cm pieces); 1 cinnamon stick; 3 cloves garlic, crushed; Juice of ½ a lemon; 2 jalapeños, finely chopped; 20 g freshly grated ginger; 1 large onion, sliced; 5 g ground turmeric; 2 x 400 g cans chopped tomatoes; 120 ml double cream; Freshly chopped coriander, for garnish; 10 g garam masala; 280 g Greek yoghurt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Chefs' Knowledge

By Chandos Elletson

Published 2022

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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