So instead today, when I spotted Patak's Butter Chicken and Chicken Breasts on sale at Costco, I saw it as a sign from the food heavens - I'm making butter chicken tonight. And I did.
And not only that. I decided to inaugurate my Le Crueset french oven (a $200 purchase justified only by the fact that it on sale and I didn't have to pay the full ridiculous full price of $400, and you can use it forever, and wouldn't it pay for itself with all the great meals I can cook with it with cheap cuts of meat, and everyone who has one seems to love it, and and and I wanted it so badly etc... Happy early birthday/x-mas?) with butter chicken.
So I followed the instructions on the jar. The result was watery and bland, so I added some garam masala, carmadone, salt and butter and let it reduce to a desired thickness.
Bear was at his parents and surprisingly he came home to have dinner of butter chicken instead of his mom's standard amazing/best-Korean-food-I've-ever-had/better-than-mom's-cooking homemade dinner. He came home hungry and he really really liked it - highfive liked it! (highfives at the dinner table are only reserved for really tasty meals).
The surprise is - it was just ok for me. I ate my butter chicken quietly and decided I won't be buying this sauce again. It lacked the deep rich flavour that I know and love about butter chicken. The real stuff. This is a toned-down shadow of what butter chicken could be - not flavorful enough, not rich enough, not creamy enough. In any event, I still have one more bottle so that'll be enough to tide Bear over if he ever wants butter chicken again.
I'm packing him this for lunch tomorrow so he probably won't be asking me for more butter chicken anytime soon.
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