Little Steve: What is Butter Chicken ?

EGGARY

Steve,

Saw post of Niaggra Fest with a picture of your BUTTER CHICKEN.

What is it ? Is there a recipe for it ? Is it nice and buttery ?

Thanks.

Gary Captol
Canoga Park, Ca.

Little Steven

Gary,

It has a lot of butter and full cream. One of the mildest (heat wise)indian curries.I started with Tandoori chicken as that is the authentic method. The sauce base is tomatoes, butter and cream. I didn't use a recipe on this one but I can send you the ingredients.

Steve

EGGARY

Steven,
Please send the ingredients.

Thanks.

Gary

Little Steven

I must be an extremely lousy cook cause it took me a whole day just on the sauce. The chicken would add another half a day and the masala a couple of hours. I didn't use any Gee in mine as I prefer the taste of ghee.

EGGARY

The thing about Google is that any subject can be looked up. I looked up Butter
Chicken and lo and behold, it's there.

Gary

RGBHV

Tweev:

Since Gary asked for Steve's butter chicken recipe and you jumped all over the post offering your own recipe - maybe - just maybe Steve was entitled to respond to the post with his version.

I know that Steve worked hard preparing the dish and it tasted amazing - BTW were you there to taste it? I didn't think so! I think it's a matter of respect - in my opinion, you should know better.

Michael

Little Steven

My spelling errors are generally a result of poor typing skills. My comment was intended to let you know that there are thousands of ways to mimic a dish. The dish usually suffers for it too.

Little Steven

Gary,

Here are a couple of the best videos I could find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD9O-L2Xvzo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nzHXxasZ8E

My method was simlar to Sanjeev Kapoor's but with a more ingredients.

Steve

troutman

Gee that was funny. Geez, Little Steven you can cook and generate laughter. Gotta like it.

Thank you for the links. It sounds like something my family would enjoy. In fact, I betcha they would say "Gee whiz Dad, can you make this again.".

Love ghee in my Indian food. Thanks for listening.

Little Steven

Scott,

It isn't nearly my favourite Indian cook but it is supposed to be the most popular. This is the first time I have done it from scratch. Mr. Potatohead, GOV or Molly could tell you if it was worth the effort because I made it for Icefest last year. I used bottled sauce and tried to enhance it for that one. Patak has a fairly good bottled version if you want to see if you like the flavour.

Steve

Tiffeggny

REALLY!!! So do you add food coloring to make it that beautiful color?? As for the spices do you toast them yourself and grind them?? I can tell you it really isn't easy when you make butter chicken from scratch.

Little Steven

TIFFEGGNY,

I was really happy with the colour. I fried two quarts of really ripe plum tomatoes, two small cans of tomato paste, saffron soaked in hot full cream and Kashmiri chilis and Kashmiri chili powder. Not as hot as most Indian chilis. I really didn't want to use red dye. I hope somebody got a pic of the gravy.

Steve

Tiffeggny

Sounds awesome LS!! I am looking forward to the pics!!

Little Steven

I forgot to take a camera I'm hoping somebody got one. Canugghead posted a pic of the gravy in my cooler.

Steve

abdukted1456

saffron and turmeric will definitely give you good orange and red color without having to use food coloring. Also paprika and for mexican or southwest foods you can use achiote seeds a.k.a. annato

Steven's chicken was gorgeous and it tasted amazing too.

Boilermaker Ben

I've got to say, Steve, your spelling is atrocious. Several of your words have an unnecessary u.

Little Steven

Ben,

I know. :laugh: Sometimes I substitute an s where a Zed is supposed to go too.

Steve