Delhi-Style Butter Chicken Sauce

Use this flavoursome base as the foundation in your homemade Makhani, also known as Butter Chicken.

It is a handmade, velvety, tomato and fenugreek sauce, aromatic from whole spices, and rounded out with a rich and indulgent cashew nut cream. 

Pandeli’s Makhani Sauce is a fine-tuned, 55-year-old family recipe, which was much-admired by the local Delhi food community. When the Pandeli family migrated to the UK in the mid-70s, they had little luck finding that nostalgic, old-school Delhi flavour here, so the father and son duo decided to take matters into their own hands and make it themselves.

Each batch is now made by hand by master makers, in Pandeli’s own Worcestershire kitchen.