Butter Chicken Tray bake

This Butter Chicken Tray bake could become one of your favourites. I love this kind of oven cooked dinner. So easy so delicious all baked in together. A family favourite cooked in a new way!

Butter Chicken is such a maligned dish, but it is one of those that everyone secretly loves. This version is special because you can throw it all together and bake it in the oven! It has a touch of chilli and spices you are sure to have in the spice cupboard.

You may have someone at your house that loves Butter Chicken too. If you do then this is the one to try. I just add it to my large baker and pop it in the oven.

It’s a good idea to serve it up with rice to soak up all the creamy spicy sauce. I love it with some raita (yoghurt with garlic and cucumber relish). My favourite though is buttered spinach on the side. All you need is a large 120 gm (4.5 oz) packet of spinach leaves a large frypan and 30 g of butter. Simply heat the frypan then add the butter and spinach and toss together with a little salt till just wilted and soft. If you don’t have a large frypan just do this in two batches.

Two ways to make this Butter Chicken

There are several ways you can make this dish. One results in quite a bit more flavour than the other but in the end, they are both very good it just depends how quickly you would like to eat.

There are two methods with pictures below. These are just to give you a visual reference when you are cooking. Scroll or jump to the recipe for the ingredients and method. Either one of these will produce a totally awesome tray baked butter chicken.

Butter Chicken 1:

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1. Collect all the ingredients for the dish including spices, cream, tomato, chicken, garlic, ginger and lemon juice
2. Put the tomato puree into a medium bowl
3. Add the cream
4. Chilli flakes and salt
5. Add the lemon juice and stir well
6. Add the grated garlic and ginger and the onion
7. Stir all the ingredients together well
8. Add the chicken to the sauce mixture in the bowl and then lay all the pieces in a single layer and cover with sauce in the baker. Bake!

Butter Chicken 2 the saute spices method.

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1. Start by sauteing chopped onions in a little oil
2. Add the spices while stirring over a medium to low heat
3. Once all the spices are added continue to stir over the heat. You may need to add another tablespoon or 2 of oil. This won’t hurt and will stop the spices from sticking too much
4. Last, add the garlic and stir till combined and fragrant about 1- 2 minutes. Take off the heat and continue as for method number 1

1. For this method add the tomato, cream, lemon and chilli and mix
2. Add the cooked spices (or the powdered spices if you are using method 1)
3. Now put in the chicken and move it around to coat it
4. The chicken is coated and submerged and ready to go into the tray

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1. Use an ovenproof dish. Spray to coat
2. Pour the mixed sauce and chicken into the tray
3. Bake in the oven for approx 1 hour

If you like this one pot dish why not try these? Follow the links below

Satay Chicken Tray bake

One Pot Balinese Chicken

One Pot African Chicken

And now you can try Butter Chicken Tray bake here’s the recipe!