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Butter Chicken - An Absolute Favourite
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I cannot remember which year it was, the first time I tasted Butter Chicken, but it was amazingly good. Various flavours came through from the spices used and needless to say, I ~~fell in love~~ found myself addicted - craving it often. 

<div class=text-justify>Whenever it was on a menu, I would choose it over anything else. I realized how many versions of it there were depending on where you ordered it. One day I ate some at a work training session lunch : it was the Good Stuff. I feverishly looked out for the cook who I had asked after and when she came to collect her pots I approached her with praise for the melt-in-your-mouth dish. Then I asked her where I could find a similar recipe to hers to make it for my family. I insisted that she didn't need to tell me hers out of professional courtesy. 
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She was flattered by the compliments and said she would share her recipe with me seeing as I enjoyed it so much, she would be honoured to have me cook it for my family. I listened intently to her tips and tricks and when she was done she was beaming, I could see that she actually WANTED to share it with me, with the world! I thanked her profusely, she squeezed my hand saying I had made her day. 
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That evening before I went home, I went shopping and bought all the ingredients. Strange things (like ginger powder) that I would have never bought otherwise were now in my basket. I went home, carefully and meticulously followed her instructions, adding things in the correct order to the electric frying pan. I ate my first portion of home-made Cape Malay Butter Chicken that night and it was to die for. 
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That was decades ago and through the subsequent years that I have made it, I've used different ingredients depending on what was available. 
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My go-to recipe is now far simpler and more cost effective but is still extremely good.
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I no longer have a blender so I don't blend up onion or add finely ground almond. 
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Chop up your chicken breasts into bite sized pieces. Add 2 tablespoons of oil to your frying pan. Olive oil is good but I just use vegetable oil. Let it start to heat up, swish the pan around to get the oil to coat the whole bottom of the pan. 

Season the pan. I do this by adding a generous sprinkling of Turmeric, a sprinkling of Tandoori Masala, a sprinkling of garlic salt and a sprinkling of dessicated coconut to the pan, then I add the chicken pieces and two teaspoons of butter (have a look at the photo below). This way the flavouring gets locked into the chicken.

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At this point I start my rice as well. 

Once the chicken is seared, I then add a sachet of tomato paste (approx 4g or two tablespoons), stir that in, then half a tin of coconut milk and a splash of All Gold tomato sauce (which adds some sweetness). I let that simmer while stirring. The chicken cooks through and the sauce starts to reduce as it simmers. 

I have found that the chicken stays nicely tender and absorbs the flavouring. 

When I cook this meal now, I never really measure anything, I just kinda throw it together in that order. It's worked very well and even though there are slight variations in the taste, I'm never disappointed by it. 

This is what we had for dinner last night and it is by far one of my and LL's absolute favourite dishes. Good enough to lick the bowl! 

Do you have a favourite Butter Chicken recipe or do you also make it according to what you know works? </div>





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@becca-mac ·
A lovely comfort meal and, due to your post I think a comfort meal I'll treat myself to on Saturday evening. You'll not judge me if I use a packet or jar mix though right? I know, it's shameful. 

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@andrastia ·
Hi Becca

Thanks for your comment. I'm not overly judgemental about premade sauce (Infact I have a packet of Butter Chicken cook in sauce in the fridge for a day when I don't want to make it from scratch), it definitely is a great comfort food. What's your favourite go to comfort food other than Butter Chicken?

Enjoy your Friday and hope to see you pop into the #weekend-engagement, the [new topics](https://peakd.com/hive-168869/@galenkp/we102-weekend-engagement-concept) are up 🌼
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@becca-mac ·
Hmm, I like spaghetti although it's a sometimes food. I like to look after my figure and **prefer my meatballs in the spaghetti over looking like one myself!** I like toasted cheese sandwiches and soup, of any kind, too; a winter staple. 

Oh yes, I saw the new weekend-engagement concept post is out...You know, I'm thinking option two or four. Undecided at the moment. I'll decide tomorrow and start writing. 

Becca 💗
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@blanchy ·
I used to. live in a place called Essen in Germany and an Irish pub there called Fritzpatricks did a killer butter chicken. The minute I saw the title memories came flooding back. 
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@andrastia ·
That's the kind of Butter Chicken that you just never forget. Hmmm so good! I'm glad I brought back some good food memories for you. 
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@meesterboom ·
Looks yum! I do like a buffer chicken and a simpler way is probably a better way for me!
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@andrastia ·
Thanks Boomy, it is a good dish. I can't do complicated anymore, I need to try and find the most efficient ways to do stuff, so simply is 100%. 

Toast and marmalade works for me too in a pinch 🤣
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@meesterboom ·
Simple is good. And I know what you mean, when you have little ones everything needs to be simple!
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@papacrusher ·
I just had this as a cheat meal last Friday!  My family and I decided to go to an Indian restaurant and I picked this as my cheat meal.  I adore Indian cuisine...my wife....not so much lololol  Luckily my daughter and her husband love it as well so three out of four of us had a good time...lololol  Actually, my wife ended up finding something there she liked as well.  
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@andrastia ·
Hi @papacrusher 

It's a fooking brilliant choice for a cheat meal! I am glad that at least 75% of the people were happy, what did your wife end up having? 

Hope you are going to have a wonderful weekend 
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