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butter chicken

butter chicken noun: a mild curry with marinaded chicken in a makhani sauce.

Noun

butter chicken (uncountable)

  1. A mild curry with marinaded chicken in a makhani sauce.

Questions about butter chicken

What does butter chicken mean?
Butter chicken means a mild curry with marinaded chicken in a makhani sauce.
What part of speech is butter chicken?
Butter chicken is a noun.

Words near butter chicken in the dictionary

  1. butter bread
  2. butter breads
  3. butter brickle
  4. butter cake
  5. butter cakes
  6. butter chicken
  7. butter clam
  8. butter clams
  9. butter cream
  10. butter creams
  11. butter curler

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