Butter Chicken – Photo Essay
OK, I’ve given you the ingredients and the method. Here are the photos of my attempt:
First I assemble all the ingredients. There’s rather a lot because the marinade is fairly complex.
Next I prepare the chicken and the ingredients for the marinade.
Chicken is mixed in with the marinade ingredients.
Here’s the chicken pieces cooking and the tomatoes slowly melting to a pulp. I’ve also got the kachumber ingredients ready. There are cachumber [sic] recipes in this book but I prefer to do it my own way.
Now I’ve added the tomato mixture to the chicken in the frying pan.
The finished dish. I threw on a bit of chopped coriander to make it look more attractive.
Well, it wasn’t Gourmet Express (Ainsley does a version of chicken tikka masala in minutes in that book – very nice too) but the quality and complexity of flavour of this butter chicken was a bit of a step up from that, so, yes, it was worth the effort. It’s a good book, but not one of my top ten. I’m still keeping my eyes peeled for a better one.
PS: One of these days I’ll show you how to make an Indian restaurant curry. It’s not for the faint-hearted as it takes hours of preparation. Worth it, though.
50 Great Curries of India
Camellia Panjabi
Paperback, 192 pages
1995, Kyle Cathie Limited
ISBN 1 85626 186 7
RRP: £9.99
Read my review of 50 Great Curries of India
2 Responses to “Butter Chicken – Photo Essay”
Tell me: is your kitchen always this clean, or was it set up for the photos?
(Not for nothing did I choose the ‘Man in Greasy Shirt’ pseudonym…)
LOL! I confess to tidying it up a bit for the photos. That said, I like things to be done professionally. I always use the correct board and knife for the job at hand. The kitchen is tiny, sometimes I wish that when we had renovated this house we’d lost a bedroom and bathroom (we have three of each) in favour of creating a larger kitchen. But you don’t really need a big kitchen to do good cooking, as long as what space you do have is well organised.