sabah

I made it for the first time yesterday and it turned out really good It tasted like the real stuff.

There are three prep stages, marinating (double), grilling/baking, and stir-fry in the end. Doesn't need too much attention and is really easy, IMO. Give it a try

LiL Mermaid

^ I'll try it!! But where's the recipe?

Diva4U

Yeh, we need the recipe to try it out sabah.

LegallyBrown

aww sabah quit it, I am so sick of eating non authentic butter chicken at takeaway shops, but the recipe is too longish in steps wise for a kamchor for me to try it.

sabah

I don't remember all details, so make a qualified guess when needed

Marinate a chicken, cut and washed, in lemon juice, salt and kashmiri mirch. Set aside for half an hour.

Mix, a cup of yogurt, with 2 tbsp of lemon juice, salt, kashmiri mirch, dhaniya, zeera and some oil. Marinate the chicken in this mixture now and set aside for two hours.

Either grill or bake the chicken till its almost done.

Heat 50g or so of butter. Add sabut garam masala and fry for a min.
Add green chillies, ginger and garlic and fry. Add, salt, kashmiri mirch, dhaniya, zeera and bhoon for a while.
Add finally chopped tomatoes (around 400g) and fry.
Add 2 tbsp of honey and fry.
Add chicken and fry.
Add some methi.
When almost done, add cream (I added 2 glasses of milk instead) and let it simmer on low heat, till you get the right amount of shorba (thick consistency).

And you're done. All this frying takes less than 20 min. And since you're adding salt and other spices on every stage, make sure you don't add one tsp of salt every time better measure your 'end' quantity and use of it. Mine was not too spicy at all.

Daagh

all i could read was ...


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where are the pics? :-|

CareBear

Sounds yummy! What's kashmiri mirch?

LiL Mermaid

^ I was about to ask.

And what form of methi? Greens, dry or the seeds?

Qrius

this is definately a very different recipe of butter chicken compared to the ones i have tried before..never used kashmiri mirch or honey.

Diva4U

I made butter chicken today and turned out great. I used PARAMPARA spice packet that I got from my local indian store. Eventhough, it said not to add anything but the spices and water, I ended up adding fresh methi and heavy creme. It made all the difference !

Try getting the masala mix from your local indian

http://www.paramparamix.com/butterchicken.htm

queer

kashmiri mirch is a kind of lal mirch thats very colorful and has a nice aroma, but isnt "hot".