🇮🇳 How to Make Butter Chicken

Craving Butter Chicken? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Butter Chicken at home, in about 35 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 400g chicken thigh, cut in big cubes
• Marinade: 3 tbsp yogurt, 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste, 1 tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp garam masala, squeeze of lime
• 3 tbsp butter + 1 tbsp oil
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 1 cup tomato passata
• 1 tsp each cumin, paprika, garam masala
• ½ cup cream + 1 tsp sugar
• fresh coriander + one more knob of butter to finish

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Massage the marinade into the chicken. Even 15 minutes helps; overnight is glorious.
2. Sear the chicken in 1 tbsp butter + the oil over high heat until charred at the edges but not cooked through. Set aside — those charred bits are your tandoor substitute.
3. In the same pan, soften the onion in 2 tbsp butter for 5–6 min until golden, not just translucent.
4. Add the spices for 30 seconds until fragrant, then the passata. Simmer 8–10 min until it darkens and the butter starts separating at the edges — that's when the raw tomato taste is gone.
5. Return the chicken, simmer gently 5 min to cook through, then stir in the cream and sugar and warm WITHOUT boiling.
6. Taste: rich, gently sweet, mildly spiced. Finish with the last knob of butter and coriander. Serve with naan or rice — and use the naan as a spoon like everyone secretly does.