Welcome to Project Paratha

This blog will chronicle our one year adventure to eat one Indian (or Indian inspired) meal or snack every day.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Moti Mahal Butter Chicken Meets Ramsay Meets Primavera


On the left is a cross-section of the delightful Indian apple pie - it was better the next day. I came home tonight to a phenomenal butter chicken recipe developed by Gordon Ramsay on his trip to India (based upon the Moti Mahal version) that Lisa adapted - replacing double cream for yogurt and using 1/3 the butter called for in the original recipe. There are a number of different versions of this recipe floating around, the key ingredients for the sauce are ghee, garlic, gloves, ginger, cardamon pods, cloves, corriander, garam masala, tumeric, chilli power, tomato puree, lemon juice, and dairy. The dish is so popular there are, get this pre-made butter chicken pastes for purchase (including on-line via Amazon). We can't vouch for any of them; but post one here out of utter shock/surprise. http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Home-Gourmet-Chicken-1-75-Ounce/dp/B000JX09HW.


We are going to work up a kosher version and perhaps replace the dairy with something; or, simply substitute the chicken for another protein. This chicken is really all the rage for a reason. It was hands down the best Indian poultry dish I ever had. We will get better with the pictures, the picture on the left is my plate a couple of minutes in to dinner when I realized, my goodness this is so amazing we need to photograph this. We had the same issue at the start with our first set of parathas (getting so excited we ate them before there was time for pictures).