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Recipe Review - Butter Chicken (Indian Cookbook)
« on: January 13, 2010, 06:38:52 am »
Butter Chicken
Indian Cookbook
This is a really delicious recipe and so easy to make, the only thing i changed the second time i made it was the amount of salt, i put in half a teaspoon as i found a full teaspoon was a bit much but whatever works for you!
« Last Edit: January 28, 2010, 09:55:38 am by brazen20au »
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2010, 06:42:41 am »
Ta - I haven't made it but know brazen20au used to do it - should check to see what tweaks she had.
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2010, 08:30:51 am »
It is really mild and a big hit in our family, one of the few meals that keeps my 3 yr old quiet for longer than 5 minutes :)
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2010, 08:31:31 am »
i didn't tweak it, i did a whole new recipe, i didn't like it at all LOL

ETA: the recipe i don't like is the one in the EDC, i don't have the indian book as yet ;)
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2010, 08:33:13 am »
Did you do the one in the EDC or the new Indian Cookbook brazen20au?
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2010, 08:36:31 am »
yeah i just realised it said the indian book! the one i don't like is the EDC one
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2010, 11:11:36 pm »
MY MISTAKE !!!  :-[  Yeah - sounds like it might be worth a go.
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2010, 11:26:09 pm »
haha you had me scared there for a minute!! we love it and i made for dinner when we had family over and they absolutely loved it to.
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2010, 12:15:42 pm »
We had this for dinner tonight (from the Indian book) and really loved it. Lots of juice to sop up with the naan bread. Definitely to be made again and again.
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2010, 09:28:00 am »
Made this once (from EDC) and was unimpressed, bit bland.  Tried it again tonight, but bought some pre cooked tandoor chicken thighs (from local deli) and used that instead of the chicken breast - Perfect! 

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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2010, 09:49:52 am »
i have heard that the edc recipe is abit plain, but the indian cookbook recipe is delish we have had it a few times and love it even my 2 yr old tucks in which is rare for him!
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken (Indian Cookbook)
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2010, 12:19:28 pm »
I agree Em. I much prefer the recipe in the Indian cookbook to the EDC one.
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken (Indian Cookbook)
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2010, 07:37:45 am »
I made the butter chicken from the Indian book today.  Have to agree, very nice.  Next time I will deseed one of the chillies, even though it wasn't overly hot, I'd like to try it with one seeded and one not.

The only alterations I made was to add only 1/2 tsp of sea salt and after adding the cream and tomato paste I combined for about 30 seconds before adding the chicken to distribute through.

Lots of sauce just as we like, but next time will definitely add more chicken.  Could quite easily double the amount.


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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken (Indian Cookbook)
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2010, 08:12:03 am »
Looks lovely Julie.
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Re: Recipe Review - Butter Chicken (Indian Cookbook)
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2010, 07:48:59 am »
Yum - ta
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