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Jamie Oliver makes his version “Butter Chicken”. There are two ingredients in the title. Do you think he puts both in? Check out …

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  1. Maheer Kibria
    Maheer Kibria says:

    If someone served this to me and told me it was butter chicken I would be very confused. As a makhani it would be a 1/10 as a dish maybe a 3.5/10 no salt or spices or onions in the gravy so its going to be bland a spoon of chutney is not going to add enough flavor for that much gravy. The only saving grace is that the chicken looked well seasoned and he roasted the tomatoes so the sweetness would have been somewhat enhanced.

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  2. TrishJain
    TrishJain says:

    no matter what anyone says, what jamie made was tomato gravy chicken. here are the steps needed for a butter chicken
    1. Chicken drumsticks marinated overnight or for atleast 4 hours, in garam masala, red chilli powder, garlic, ginger, crushed black pepper, salt, yogurt, coriander powder, fenugreek leaves and lastly a little bit ofhaldi or turmeric.
    2. Heat neutral oil preferably vegetable oil in a Kadhai and put in chopped onions, garlic and ginger in that order and cook till fragrant.
    3. Then add a bunch of crushed or chopped tomatoes and cook it till tomatoes are half cooked.
    4. Cook your marinated chicken partially on a tawa with some butter.
    5. Add this gravy to a blender with cashew nuts and your spices and blend
    6. add gravy to kadhai and add your chicken with the rest of the marinade.
    7. Cook till chicken completely cooked and tnder and the makhani gravy is fragrant.
    8. Add your butter and your kasturi methi(fenugreek) and simmer for some time more
    9. Garnish with some cream and a tablespoon of butter.
    10. Serve with naan or any type of indian flatbread.

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  3. NikCan'tSnipe
    NikCan'tSnipe says:

    Olives do grow in Asia, specifically in Israel and India. However, Indians do not use olive oil for cooking in any of their traditional dishes or even western fusion dishes.

    Edit: Indians never use canned food. Nothing canned. Big no, no. You either make food with fresh ingredients or you buy fast food.

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  4. simran kaur Nagra
    simran kaur Nagra says:

    A lot of food found in the northern parts of Inida is heavily influenced by Persian and Middle Eastern cooking. Tandoor being the biggest element of that, yes chickpeas are used in North India food but stand alone never in rice like that .

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  5. amalaspina
    amalaspina says:

    I don't know if that myth about Butter chicken being invented as a way to use leftover tandoori chicken is true, but I do know that the meat in my local Indian places butter chicken is clearly tandoori chicken.

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  6. SkaterBlades
    SkaterBlades says:

    With the marinade prep, I'd slice the chicken at an angle and cut any large pieces in half to make sure they're all the same size. Then the dry marinade would be garam masala, garlic, ginger, salt, cumin and a small amount of cayenne pepper or hot paprika. Add the chicken to a zip lock bag, add the mixed up spices then shake it to cover everything. Leave it to rest in the fridge. You can add yogurt to the marinade if you want, i personally don't do this often. I prefer to save my yogurt for bread (I'll get to this later)

    When it comes to cooking it, fry it off in a hot pan with some oil (go for veg or peanut oil). This is a great way of cooking Indian inspired chicken because you get this crust of spices over the chicken almost like a pakora.

    If you're making a curry, double the amount of spices used to make the marinade, add half to the chicken and half to the gravy. If you want, after you have marinaded the chicken you can adjust the spice levels to what you want if you want the gravy to be a little hotter or have the other flavours be more pronounced.

    I've recently started making bread to go with my curries. You only need 3 ingredients to make it, equal parts unflavoured yogurt and self raising or plain flour and a teaspoon or 2 of baking powder. Form the dough, cut into balls and roll it out flat. Put it into a pan and cook until browned on both sides. To make it better i like to brush the bread with a thin layer of garlic and chilli oil. You can also incorporate some of your ground spices into the dough too

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  7. K. Santucci
    K. Santucci says:

    I would give this a 4 at most. That gravy is nightmarish. Did Jamie add any spices at all to the gravy besides that sprinkling of chilis? There's no flavor, no richness, no butter chicken.

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