No matter how many times you have butter chicken, you’re always going to lick your fingers after feasting on it. Chicken’s lavishness in a creamy curry along with butter naan will give you a calorie shock but your taste buds will go into frenzy. Although it is usually a Punjabi dish, butter chicken has gotten palettes of a large global audience addicted. Such is its craze that the Canadian PM Stephen Harper especially took out the time to enjoy butter chicken at a North Indian restaurant on his visit to India.
There’s no doubt that butter chicken is a top, north Indian cuisine in Delhi. The reason behind that is butter chicken’s roots can be traced to city. A certain Kundan Lal Gujral invented this recipe at his small hotel called Moti Mahal in Peshawar, Pakistan, before partition. After Punjab was split in two, Gujral moved to New Delhi, India and re-opened his Moti Mahal restaurant. It was here that butter chicken became a super-hit, especially among the Sikh community, who took it across the globe with their diaspora.
Dhaba by Claridges has continued the tradition of cooking delicious and tongue rollicking butter chicken. It is prepared by marinating chicken for some hours in a yogurt and spice mixture. The spices vary across different preparations and can be garam masala, ginger, garlic, pepper, coriander, chilli, turmeric etc. Chicken pieces are cooked in tandoor, grilled, roasted or pan fried. A curry is prepared which is a bit on the sweet side and includes a lot of butter. There are any variations on the spices used for the sauce. Spices for the sauce can be cloves, cumin, cinnamon, coriander, pepper and fenugreek. Garnishing the butter chicken with more butter, cream and coriander prepares a lavish, mouth-watering dish.
There’s no doubt that butter chicken is a top, north Indian cuisine in Delhi. The reason behind that is butter chicken’s roots can be traced to city. A certain Kundan Lal Gujral invented this recipe at his small hotel called Moti Mahal in Peshawar, Pakistan, before partition. After Punjab was split in two, Gujral moved to New Delhi, India and re-opened his Moti Mahal restaurant. It was here that butter chicken became a super-hit, especially among the Sikh community, who took it across the globe with their diaspora.
Dhaba by Claridges has continued the tradition of cooking delicious and tongue rollicking butter chicken. It is prepared by marinating chicken for some hours in a yogurt and spice mixture. The spices vary across different preparations and can be garam masala, ginger, garlic, pepper, coriander, chilli, turmeric etc. Chicken pieces are cooked in tandoor, grilled, roasted or pan fried. A curry is prepared which is a bit on the sweet side and includes a lot of butter. There are any variations on the spices used for the sauce. Spices for the sauce can be cloves, cumin, cinnamon, coriander, pepper and fenugreek. Garnishing the butter chicken with more butter, cream and coriander prepares a lavish, mouth-watering dish.
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