Classic butter chicken from Amrikan: 125 Recipes from the Indian American Diaspora (page 188) by Khushbu Shah

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Accompaniments: Simple parathas; Super flaky parathas; Simple naan

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    Chicken marinates at least 1 hour or overnight.

  • aubdog on March 28, 2026

    Really easy but absolutely delicious butter chicken recipe. Goes really well with spicy cilantro chutney.

  • acwebb2 on March 03, 2026

    The flavor of this was delicious, and the recipe is very easy. However, I found that it was significantly dry as written, and ended up at least doubling the amount of half and half to produce the expected creamy sauce. Once that change was made, it was perfect and everyone loved it!

  • rmardel on May 09, 2025

    This was fabulous! I marinated the chicken (I used breast) for about 28 hours and it turned out beautifully, tender, moist, flavorful. Note that my chicken cooked in less than 10 minutes in the 400* oven. The entire dish came together while the rice cooked, which makes it simpler than many Butter Chicken recipes I have made which seem to become a production. This one can be made easily enough that it might go in regular rotation.

  • Lsblackburn1 on July 22, 2024

    This was tasty. I made a special trip to an Indian grocery for the chili powder and fenugreek leaves. The chili powder was hot so it was a good call to scale back from her suggested 1T to 1 tsp. Not sure if the fenugreek leaves added anything, but maybe!

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