Butter Chicken in Kastrup — Our Bestseller, Made from Scratch

If you are searching for butter chicken in Kastrup, you are looking for the dish more people order from us than anything else on the menu. We are Inder'n, a family-run Indian takeaway at Sirgræsvej 4, 2770 Kastrup, about 3 km from Copenhagen Airport (CPH), and Butter Chicken is our bestseller by a clear margin. This guide covers what the dish actually is, how we cook it, what it costs, what to order with it, and how to get it hot to your door in Kastrup, Tårnby Kommune and the rest of Amager.

What butter chicken is, and where it comes from

Butter Chicken is the English name for Murgh Makhani, a North Indian dish of tandoor-grilled chicken finished in a smooth tomato sauce enriched with butter and cream. It was created in Delhi in the 1950s at the restaurant Moti Mahal, where the cooks simmered the day's tandoori chicken in a buttery tomato gravy so the meat stayed moist. From Delhi it spread through Punjab's kitchens and on to almost every Indian restaurant in the world.

What makes the dish work is balance rather than heat. The tomatoes bring acidity, the butter and cream round it off, and the spices, cumin and garam masala among them, sit in the background rather than the foreground. That is why it is the dish we point to when someone is ordering Indian food for the first time, and why it is the one most families in Kastrup order for the children. If you are new to the cuisine, our guide to Indian food for beginners starts with exactly this dish.

How we cook butter chicken in Kastrup

We make it from scratch, in our own kitchen on Sirgræsvej. There is no paste from a jar and no powder mix in the sauce, and you can see the difference in the colour: ours is a warm orange-red from real tomatoes, not the bright red that comes from colouring.

• The chicken is marinated overnight in yoghurt and our own spice mix, then grilled in the tandoor. The clay oven gives the pieces a light char and a smoky edge that a frying pan cannot copy, and that is the flavour you taste underneath the sauce.
• The sauce is built in layers. Onion and garlic first, then fresh tomatoes cooked down slowly until they turn sweet, then the spices, and finally butter and cream stirred in at the end so the sauce stays glossy instead of splitting.
• We use real butter. Not margarine, not oil. The name of the dish is a promise, and we keep it.

Because the sauce is finished separately from the chicken, we can control the heat. Our Butter Chicken is mild by default, which is what most people in Kastrup want, but if you like chilli, write it in the order comments or tell us on the phone and we make yours hotter. It is one of the dishes on our menu where we would much rather you asked for more heat than got a surprise.

One honest note on ingredients: the dish is made with butter, cream and a yoghurt marinade, so it is not the one to choose if you avoid dairy. Our dishes may contain gluten, milk, nuts and soy, so if you have an allergy, call us on +45 50 29 13 71 before you order and we will go through it with you.

Butter chicken in Kastrup: price, portion and what to order with it

Butter Chicken costs 119 kr when you order at indern.dk or by phone. The portion is a full main: enough sauce and chicken for one hungry person with naan and rice, or to share across a table when it sits next to two or three other dishes.

The order we hand over the counter more than any other is Butter Chicken with Garlic Naan. The complete version looks like this:

• Garlic Naan (17 kr) or Plain Naan (17 kr), baked in the same tandoor as the chicken and the right tool for the sauce. We have written more about our garlic naan separately.
• Basmati rice (25 kr), long-grain and cooked so the grains stay separate rather than sticky.
• Mango Lassi (35 kr), cold, creamy and sweet, and the drink that pairs best with this particular sauce.
• Samosa (49 kr for 2) or Pakora (49 kr for 3) if you want something crisp to start with.

Two people ordering two Butter Chicken, two Garlic Naan and one basmati rice pay 297 kr. A family of four ordering two Butter Chicken, one Daal Makhani, four naan, two rice and a portion of samosas pays 514 kr, which is around 129 kr per person and leaves nobody hungry. If you are still deciding between our two most popular chicken dishes, we have written a plain comparison of tikka masala versus butter chicken.

Takeaway or delivery: getting it hot to your door

Order at indern.dk/bestil or call +45 50 29 13 71, and your food is ready for collection at Sirgræsvej 4 in around 15–20 minutes. We deliver within 3 km of the kitchen, which covers most of Kastrup and Tårnby and the hotels around Copenhagen Airport, and delivery usually takes 30 to 45 minutes. You can also order through Wolt.

Butter Chicken travels well, which is one reason it is the dish so many people order for delivery. We pack the curry in a sealed, lidded container and wrap the naan separately, so the bread stays soft instead of steaming in the sauce, and the sauce is still hot when it reaches an apartment in Kastrup or a hotel room by the airport. If you end up with leftovers, our guide to reheating Indian takeaway explains how to warm it through the next day without the sauce splitting.

Opening hours and where to find us

Inder'n is open Tuesday to Sunday, 16:00–20:30 (closed Mondays). We are at Sirgræsvej 4, 2770 Kastrup, a few minutes from Kastrup Station and the Øresund coast, and close enough to Copenhagen Airport that hotel guests and crews order from us regularly. Most evenings the first Butter Chicken leaves the kitchen within minutes of the door opening, so if you want it for an early dinner, ordering right at 16:00 is a good idea.

Phone: +45 50 29 13 71. Online: indern.dk. Address: Sirgræsvej 4, 2770 Kastrup.