Butter Chicken - Real Recipes from Mums

Ingredients (serves 4)

1/2 cup natural yoghurt
1 tbl lemon juice
1 tspn turmeric
2 tspn garam masala
1 tspn chilli powder
1 tspn ground cumin
2 tspn grated fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 kg chicken breast fillets, chopped
125g cashews, roasted
60g unsalted butter
1 onion, finely chopped
1 tspn ground cardamom
1 cinnamon stick
1 Bay Leaf
1 tspn sweet paprika
425g can tomato puree*
150g chicken stock
1 cup thickened cream
Steamed basmati rice, to serve

Method

Combine yoghurt, lemon juice, turmeric, garam masala, chilli, cumin, ginger and garlic in a bowl. Add chicken and stir well. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Reserve half the cashews and place remaining cashews in a food processor. Process until finely ground.
Heat the butter and oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the onion, cardamom, cinnamon and bay leaf and cook for 2 minutes until the onion starts to soften. Reduce heat to low, then add chicken and marinade, paprika, tomato puree, cashew powder and stock. Simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in cream and cook for a further 10 minutes.

87 Comments

- - cassy26 said
  - 21 Jul 2024
    10:33 am
This looks amazing. Love butter chicken and love the cashews in this one.

- - meedee said
  - 27 Nov 2021
    9:28 am
How awesome. Love the flavours of butter chicken

- - mom103778 said
  - 10 Jun 2021
    9:40 am
Thank for the recipe. I love Butter Chicken but sometimes it is too spicy for me. Now I can make it myself with less spice.

- - mom462038 said
  - 17 Mar 2021
    12:30 pm
It looks very pale compared to butter chicken I’ve had before

- - Blossom said
  - 01 Oct 2019
    7:26 pm
I’m not sure why it is called Butter Chicken. No way would you taste the butter

- - happymum2018 said
  - 07 Mar 2019
    9:53 pm
So many ingredients but would be a great butter chicken

- - happymum2018 said
  - 31 Dec 2018
    8:18 pm
Looks great, love butter chicken!

- - AmyLouise said
  - 29 Sep 2017
    1:41 pm
from scratch is best!!!
love this

- - mom64736 said
  - 28 Sep 2017
    12:05 pm
Garam Masala has become my secret weapon in cooking and makes everything delicious.

- - tessie said
  - 27 Sep 2017
    12:24 pm
I love butter chicken and now I’ll be able to cook it at home

- - mom113702 said
  - 26 Sep 2017
    8:16 am
looking forward to trying this one. Sounds as though it will be just right.

- - cherz said
  - 25 Sep 2017
    8:54 pm
Heaps of lovely ingredients in this one..and I must say it looks sooo yummy. thanks.

- - mom90758 said
  - 25 Sep 2017
    7:19 pm
So beautiful! I love butter chicken. And I’ve never tried adding cashew nuts. I will have to try that!!

- - rachel1970 said
  - 25 Sep 2017
    6:53 pm
yumm, nothing beats a good Butter Chicken, especially a home made one from scratch. Will try out this recipe and see how it compares to my ‘usual’ one.

- - rovermum said
  - 25 Sep 2017
    4:34 pm
Ooh, I really love the look of this. I must admit, we do love Butter Chicken in our home but we tend to add the wet mix from a packaged version. I’m happy enough with that.

- - mom183717 said
  - 06 Aug 2017
    2:19 pm
i love butter chicken so much

- - taynik46 said
  - 16 Jul 2017
    8:16 am
I love butter chicken and I hate using premade jars so I am glad I have found this recipe – thank you for sharing – it sounds delicious

- - tessie said
  - 27 Oct 2016
    9:55 am
Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe.

- - ella12 said
  - 24 Oct 2016
    12:20 pm
This would be oozing with flavour. Thanks for sharing.

- - rovermum said
  - 24 Oct 2016
    11:07 am
Ooh yum, I can definitely make this one. It looks so yum, but I can see me making this in my slow cooker!