Each Indian dish has its unique taste, smell, flavor, and color. It is a real tough game when we have to differentiate between butter chicken and chicken tikka masala. These two dishes look the same with their orange tinge. It is hard to pinpoint any difference between these two dishes other than the cooking procedure.
Butter Chicken
Origin
Butter Chicken or murgh makhana is originally an Indian dish, thanks to the creativity of three Indians, Kundan Lal Gujral, Thakur Dass, and Kundan Lal Jaggi. 
These Punjabi Hindu restaurateurs were the founders of the famous Moti Mahal restaurant in Delhi in 1948. They came up with the idea of butter chicken to save the cooked chicken from drying out.
What are the Ingredients of Butter Chicken?
Butter chicken is juicy and soft. Small chicken pieces are marinated in ginger, garlic, and other spices and are cooked until the tomato based creamy sauce turns into spicy gravy.
Common Ingredients
Chicken, cream, yogurt, tomato paste, onion, ginger, garlic, cumin, pepper, butter, turmeric, and garam masala.
Chicken Tikka Masala
Origin
In the 1960s most of the Indian restaurants of Britain were operated by Bangladeshi chefs who came up with the idea of Chicken Tikka Masala.
Some other source reports that Chicken Tikka Masala originated in an Indian restaurant of Glasgow. The story goes Ali Ahmed Aslam, a Pakistani chef came up with the idea of Chicken Tikka Masala by preparing a sauce from spices, cream, and yogurt.
It is considered one of the most popular non-vegetarian dishes in the UK.
What are the Ingredients of Chicken Tikka Masala?
This non-vegetarian dish is prepared almost just like butter chicken. This dish is less creamy and more intensified with tomato sauce.
Common Ingredients
Chicken, cream, yogurt, tomato paste, onion, ginger, garlic, chili pepper, and garam masala.
The main difference between these two mouth-watering dishes is butter chicken has lesser tomato intensity and chicken tikka masala is less creamy than butter chicken.
Tikka masala is a dry dish that is cooked in the tandoor while butter masala is cooked in a pan over a fire.
Be it butter chicken or chicken tikka masala, enjoy your dish with rice, nun or roti and savor its delectable taste.