Indian Butter Chicken
Indian Butter Chicken Recipe and history Murgh Makhani (Indian Butter Chicken) Butter chicken or Murgh Makhani is an Indian dish, popular all over the world. The origins of butter chicken can be traced back to Delhi, during the period of the Mughal Empire. The recipe seems to be invented by a person working in the kitchen of the restaurant called ‘Moti Mahal’ located in Daryaganj, the central region of Delhi, called Murg Makhani in Hindi, butter chicken originated in the 1950’s at the Moti Mahal restaurant in old Delhi, famed for its tandoori chicken (tandoori chicken is essentially a restaurant dish and not a home-style dish, because there are no tandoors in Indian domestic kitchens), the cooks there used to recycle the leftover chicken juices in the marinade with the tandoor-cooked chicke...