#Butter chicken free
If you prefer a creamier or more mild dish, feel free to add in more cream than I did.
#Butter chicken full
I’m giving you full permission to play with this recipe as much as you want. If you look at my recipe and feel like I’m adding in more cayenne that you think I should, trust yourself. I wrote down what I did so I could share this with all my friends. So this time, I decided to make this familiar dish and actually pause to measure my spices and yogurt. Adding marinara sauce to a pizza with chicken is definitely still a pizza. It’s kind of like making a bbq chicken pizza and adding marinara sauce. Chicken tikka? Chicken curry? Definitely add onions. It’s just one of those rules that you learn when you grow up in an Indian household. Butter Chicken should never contain onion. At least half of the recipes included onion. Many of the recipes included strange ingredients like shallots, curry leaves, or curry powder. As I clicked through recipe after recipe, they all seemed wrong. “Healthy” versions, keto versions, and dairy free versions. Slow-cooker versions, and Instant Pot versions. There are thousands of Indian-style Butter Chicken recipes. Not wanting to leave my friends without a recipe, I tried googling for “Indian-style Butter Chicken recipes” and you know what? I couldn’t find a single recipe that was close to what I did. And my spice box comes with these teeny-tiny spoons. I keep my Indian spices in a little spice box. I also didn’t have a clue about measurements. It’s one of those recipes that seemed to be on auto-pilot. And then added in some spices and things and a few hours later, I had a pan full of butter chicken. I was motivated to write this recipe on the blog because I had two friends ask me back-to-back for a recipe for Indian-style Butter Chicken. We can play around and learn to trust our instincts. But as home cooks, we can have a little more fun. I understand this need for uniformity and ensuring that the dish you make today is exactly the same as the dish you make tomorrow. You level off measuring spoons, and stick to specific brands of oil and vinegar. In a restaurant, flour gets sifted before measured. I thought that was how everyone cooked, until I found myself managing the kitchen of a restaurant. By trying different techniques and learning to trust their instincts. Instead, they learned to cook by taste and by color. There were no measuring cups, measuring spoons, or food scales to be found.
My mother and grandmother never used recipes to cook. And I hope my daughter will pick up some kitchen skills from me. My mother learned to cook basic dishes from her mother.
If we were lucky, we picked up some of their techniques and soaked in some of their tips. Many of us grew up watching our mothers cook. Inside: Today I’m sharing one of my family’s favorite dinners, an easy Indian-style Butter Chicken Curry! This dish can be made as spicy or as mild as you like, and the creamy, spiced tomato sauce just soaks into hot basmati rice.
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