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Fast Butter Chicken Recipe with Coconut Milk

January 15, 2023 by Tangled with Taste Leave a Comment

Indian Butter Chicken inspired: Chicken braised in butter and coconut milk, tomato paste, ginger, garlic and spices. Fast, easy recipe that tastes insanely good.

Butter chicken braised in coconut milk, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and spices.

Fast Butter Chicken Recipe with Coconut Milk

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Indian inspired butter chicken made with a delicious blend of spices and creamy coconut milk. It’s such a cozy dish, tastes creamy and a little spicy. Most of all; it’s absolutely delicious!

Indian inspired butter chicken made with plenty of spice and creamy coconut milk for a slight twist. It's cozy, creamy, a little spicy, and absolutely delicious!

Healthy Butter Chicken Recipe

Two things of note:

  1. To make this recipe slightly less fatty, you can leave out the butter. Additionally, you could use low fat coconut milk. I advise against it because you won’t have such a creamy sauce. However, it will still taste good should you choose to do that for health purposes.
  2. This recipe is incredibly simple to make. However, if you are a visual person; I made a step by step video found here.

Inspired by the familiar Indian dish, our Butter Chicken with Coconut milk is fragrant, spicy and creamy.

Best Butter Chicken Recipe

This recipe takes about 20 minutes from start to finish to make. I’m not making it the traditional way, but the flavors are on point.

We like to serve this with any or all of the following:

  • Traditional naan bread (I buy bite size naan bites from my local grocer)
  • Garlic Roti
  • Coconut Rice
  • Air-fryer Green Beans

Also, the cilantro is totally optional. The dish tastes good with or without it. I prefer the fresh kick it gives the dish, but I know for some people cilantro tastes like toothpaste. 

Easy Butter Chicken recipe in 20 minutes

Fast Butter Chicken Recipe with Coconut Milk
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Ingredients

  • 2 pounds Chicken, cut into chunks
  • 5-6oz Greek Yogurt, plain
  • 1 tsp ginger
  • Garlic Salt
  • 2 TBSP Masala Indian Seasoning
  • 2 tsp Cumin
  • 2 tsp Turmeric
  • 1/2+ tsp Cayenne Pepper
  • Red Pepper Flakes
  • Black Pepper
  • 3 TBS Butter
  • 4-6oz Tomato Paste
  • 14 oz full-fat coconut milk
  • Fresh Cilantro

Instructions

  1. Combine chicken, yogurt, and spices in a pan. Stir together and let sit for five minutes.
  2. Add butter to pan and turn on the stove, med-high heat.
  3. Cook chicken and butter together for approximately 5 minutes, stirring together.
  4. Push chicken to edges of the pan, and add tomato paste. Let sit over heat for 2 minutes, then stir tomato paste together with the chicken.
  5. Pour coconut milk over chicken, stir everything together, and drop heat to low.
  6. Let everything simmer for approximately 10 minutes.
  7. Serve over rice and ENJOY!
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Filed Under: 20-Minute Meals, Chicken, Main Dish Tagged With: butter chicken, coconut butter chicken, coconut chicken, coconut rice, Indian chicken, Indian food, masala chicken


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