Cooking Fresh Food - breaking the jar/can/bottle habit...

[Winter]

Do you have to roast the beef bones first?

[TheBear]

You don't have to roast the bones, but it will give a darker, richer flavour - same goes for chicken, if you fry the chicken off to get a nice dark amber colour before deglazing the pan.

[Winter]

Thanks! I'll give it a go!

[onthefly]

I have a recipe for butter chicken, if it hasn't been done already

(sorry, not sure on exact amounts... but don't stress, you can't really go wrong)

Ingredients:

~500g Chicken breast, cut into pieces
Tandoori seasoning
Small pot of natural yogurt

Hunk of butter (errr... maybe 50g)
1/2 ts garlic (crushed or chopped)
1/2 ts ginger (crushed or chopped)
1/2 poddle of tomato paste (or more if you want it more tomatoey)
~100-150 mL cream
1/4 ts chilli powder
1/2 ts garam masala

Marinate chicken in tandoori & yogurt (overnight or a least a few hours).
Cook chicken (fry pan will do).
Melt butter, cook in garlic & ginger, then stir through tomato paste. Add cream, and spices.
Add chicken (and yogurty stuff it cooked in) to sauce.
Cook through.

Eat!

[sunshine_sieben]

I never roast the bones but it can't hurt

[Caz1971]

I have a recipe for butter chicken, if it hasn't been done already

(sorry, not sure on exact amounts... but don't stress, you can't really go wrong)

Ingredients:

~500g Chicken breast, cut into pieces
Tandoori seasoning
Small pot of natural yogurt

Hunk of butter (errr... maybe 50g)
1/2 ts garlic (crushed or chopped)
1/2 ts ginger (crushed or chopped)
1/2 poddle of tomato paste (or more if you want it more tomatoey)
~100-150 mL cream
1/4 ts chilli powder
1/2 ts garam masala

Marinate chicken in tandoori & yogurt (overnight or a least a few hours).
Cook chicken (fry pan will do).
Melt butter, cook in garlic & ginger, then stir through tomato paste. Add cream, and spices.
Add chicken (and yogurty stuff it cooked in) to sauce.
Cook through.

Eat!

opps didnt see this one. yeah my recipe was very similiar. so u can now say that u cooked it from scratch, not this patak stuff.

[onthefly]

I love Pataks but not for butter chicken.

[sunshine_sieben]

oh, that reminds me, i have the most beautiful recipe for the best kashmiri garam masala spice mix that i was give by a pakistani friend. and a recipe for lamb palak (lamb saag) which uses that spice mix and is my all time favourite indian dish. i'll have to find them and post them...

Sasa