DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Butter Chicken
Marinated roast chicken in a strained tomato, butter and cream gravy.
About Butter Chicken
Sanjeev Kapoor presents this butter chicken as an all-time Punjabi favourite. His rendition marinates chicken in lemon, yogurt and spices, then roasts it on skewers with a butter baste.
The gravy combines tomato, garlic and ginger with green cardamom, mace and deghi chilli. Roasted dried fenugreek leaves, honey and cream round out the butter-enriched sauce.
The tomato mixture is strained and blended for a smooth gravy before the roasted chicken joins it. The finished curry is served hot with naan alongside.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Mustard, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Butter Chicken
Sanjeev Kapoor's Punjabi butter chicken with roasted skewered chicken.
- Chicken piecesProtein
- Red chilli powderSeasoning
- Lemon juiceSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- Thick yogurtBase
- Ginger pasteAromatic
- Garlic pasteAromatic
- Garam masalaSeasoning
- Mustard oilSeasoning
- ButterCooking medium
- Dried fenugreek leaves, roasted and crushedSeasoning
- Green cardamomSeasoning
- MaceSeasoning
- Deghi red chilli powderSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- Fresh chopped garlicAromatic
- Fresh chopped gingerAromatic
- TomatoesBase
- HoneySweetener
- CreamFinish
- NaanAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Chicken pieces: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual8 generic chickenpieces, no boneless/cut imported from current FoodFood90.
- Red chilli powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual8 marinade genericredchillipowder, not assumed Kashmiri from other recipe; full product blend unprovided.
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Thick yogurt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual8 dairy yogurt marinade.
- Ginger paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual8 paste, broader ginger candidate preserves prepared state; full paste product formula unknown.
- Garlic paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual8 paste, broader garlic candidate, distinct from freshgravygarlic13.
- Garam masala: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual8 compoundfull formula unprovided.
- Mustard oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Mustard source-confirmed. Actual8 explicitly mustard oil, Mustard ingredient identity.
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual11 baste plus13/15 gravybutter consolidated.
- Dried fenugreek leaves, roasted and crushed: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual12 kasoorimethi roasting/crushing fully supplied, no seed substitution.
- Green cardamom: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13 explicit green cardamom.
- Mace: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Deghi red chilli powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13 named deghi gravy powder, broader chilli-powder candidate, distinct supplied allocation from generic marinade powder; exact blend unresolved.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13 explicitly mixes gravy chilli powder with water, no invented broth or extra panmedium.
- Fresh chopped garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13 fresh cloves, kept distinct from marinade preparedpaste.
- Fresh chopped ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13 freshpiece, distinct from marinade paste.
- Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Honey: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual15 dairy cream.
- Naan: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual15 servedhot withnaan, conventionalnaan Wheat; full breadformula unknown, no Egg/Milk inferred from naan.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- India
- IndiaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Punjabi Cuisine
- Punjabi CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.