Reviewed: Nov. 26, 2009

I loved it! Very bright and flavorful. Just the amount of spice I was looking for, and it really doesn't take THAT long to make. I added extra coriander and cardamom because I love the aroma. All in all, great take on a classic recipe. I will be making again very soon!!

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Kelly Joy

Home Town: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Living In: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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Reviewed: Nov. 11, 2009

Not very nice! I was very excited about making this recipe as it was from a restaraunt owner, i expected it to taste slightly similar to restaraunt quality.. but i was very disapointed. Too much chilli... not so much that it was too hot, but more that the spice came soley from the chilli it tasted, and wayy too much tomato puree. The sauce when finished looked more like a watered down can of puree than anything else. The meat however cooked very nicely and tasted good, so perhaps i will use the same marinade over a different sauce, but overall this just didnt taste like any curry id eaten before. If you are an ordinary person having doubts about making this then my suggestion is dont bother.

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Reviewed: Nov. 8, 2009

i just realized i never rated this. this was oh so good. served over basmati rice with a stuffed hot Indian bread, spinach & chickpeas. a pretty easy dish to put together. will make again. thanks for the post rkozel!

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Home Town: Middletown, New Jersey, USA

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Reviewed: Oct. 3, 2009

This was very good, but I have to agree with a few other people--it was a little too "tomatoey" for my taste. I even cut the amount of sauce down to 1.5 cups and added a little extra cream, and it just wasn't creamy/buttery enough. The chicken itself was surprisingly bland, but the sauce was very good over rice, I'll give it that much. I'll probably make this again, but I'm going to cut the tomato sauce at least in half, maybe more.

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Home Town: Maurertown, Virginia, USA

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Reviewed: Sep. 29, 2009

This was amazing! I was cooking indian food for the first time and was concerned at how it would come out. I was pleasantly surprised! I marinated the chicken overnight as suggested in another review but then cooked according to the recipe. Will have to do this one again soon!

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Lauren

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Reviewed: Aug. 7, 2009

This tastes nothing like butter chicken. There is WAY TOO MUCH chili powder used. If I decide to try this recipe again, I'll cut down the chili powder by 1/2 or more. Other then the heat, the recipe is easy to follow, however it does take a fair amount of time.

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Reviewed: Aug. 6, 2009

This recipe was not only fun to make, it was so good that after we cleared the table, our dinner party guests were crowded around the mostly empty pot in the kitchen, scraping spoonfuls of sauce into their mouths. I used fresh garlic and ginger, and and changed the cooking times a bit to emulate the "next day" effect. I made the red sauce right after putting the chicken in the second marinade, and throughout the day I would heat it up and then let it cool down. When it was time to cook the chicken, I just slapped the whole baking dish with the raw chicken and marinade into the oven for about 20 minutes, and then I scraped it all into the red sauce after that, let that simmer for 20 minutes, added the cream and then let it simmer for another 30 minutes or so, both times without the lid so the sauce thickened up perfectly. Perfect amount of spice as is, even for our group of varying sensitivity - I think the trick is the longer you simmer, the mellower it gets.

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ScavenGypsy

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Reviewed: Jul. 25, 2009

Very good! This recipe makes a ton of sauce so I always make more chicken. A little time consuming but worth the effort- I let the chicken marinate in step two ingredients overnight.

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Niki Jo

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Reviewed: Jun. 30, 2009

What a tasty dish! It's well worth the effort. Very close in taste to the Butter Chicken I've had at Indian restaurants. I couldn't find fenugreek leaves in my area, so I used fenugreek seeds instead, crushed, and they worked fine. All the flavors blended nicely, none overpowered the others.

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Jennifer Klem

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Reviewed: Jun. 14, 2009

Sorry, but I wasn't very impressed with this dish. Too much tomato made the sauce very sour. Additionally, for the flavor that I got out of this dish, there are too many ingredients and too much time to put it all together. Marinading the chicken in the yogurt mixture didn't really add anything spectacular at all either. All-in-all too much effort and too many ingredients made a sour meal.

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Megs

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Reviewed: Jun. 9, 2009

This was the first time I ventured to make my favorite dish - butter chicken and it was awesome. My husband raved about its authenticity. As most of the users of this site, I didn't quite follow the recipe, as I was missing a few ingredients. Most notably gram masala (I had to research how to make it as it's not available out here -thankfully I had everything (cinnamon, coriander, cumin, bay leaf and pepper). I used more chicken and replaced tomato puree with paste and 2 cups of water. I added a bit of curry and turmeric (for color) and replaced the fenugreek leaves with cardamon seeds (about 10 or 15 from 4 pods). What really makes this recipe work is the yogurt marinade, a must!

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Reviewed: May 13, 2009

perfect as is.

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Reviewed: Apr. 25, 2009

I am so happy to finally have made an Indian meal at home that actually tastes Indian. I made some modifications: I added about 1/2 tsp of coriander, 1/2 tsp cumin, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1/2 tsp curry powder, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, and 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper to the yogurt marinade. I cooked this in a large saucepan, sauteed a shallot and some white onion in peanut oil, then added the chicken mixture to only 1 cup tomato puree and 1 tbsp honey (nothing else in the third list). I simmered the mix over medium heat for 10 minutes, added 1/4 cup of ground cashews and 1/4 cup more yogurt then simmered for another 10 minutes.

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Reviewed: Apr. 11, 2009

I LOVE Indian food and this recipe turned out exactly the taste I was looking for. I followed the suggestion to use tomato sauce and diced tomatoes in place of the puree and had some wonderful Butter Chicken for dinner. This recipe is now part of my standard collection. Note: For years I wondered what I was doing wrong as my sauces never turned out that gorgeous red/orange - then I learned that they use food coloring!!!

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Reviewed: Mar. 22, 2009

I've been trying various makhani recipes from the Internet to try and find something that replicates what I get in Indian restaurants in the Pacific Northwest, but I can't say this recipe does. It's way too spicy, even if you skip the chili peppers, which is what I did. Also, it looked nothing like in the picture. The cream made it a very pale red--almost pink. The use of honey was interesting though, that gave it the sweet butter chicken flavour that I'd been looking for (just with way too much spiciness). I might try adapting it or adding honey to other makhani recipes to try and get what I want.

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Tristan

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Reviewed: Mar. 22, 2009

The extra time spent prepping this dish was worth it. It was incredibly good... though, I agree with another reviewer's comments that the 2c of tomato puree gave it a little sour tang. I will probably cut back a bit on this the next time I make it, and I will definitely make this again! ADDENDUM: 1 cup tomato puree worked much better to get rid of extra tang. Also, save yourself a step and don't bother with the skewers... I just threw the chicken minus the marinade into a glass dish and baked it and it turned out fine; just make sure to strain with a slotted spoon before putting into the last mixture.

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Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2009

I followed the advice of others and added a little more of the spices (and coriander) because I like very tasty food. This was a very simple very good Indian dish.

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JanineyBeaney

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Reviewed: Jan. 27, 2009

This is a great recipe and true to the cuisine. I did end up adding a little more spice (more garam masala and some black pepper), but that was just personal taste. The dish is very time consuming, but well worth it!!

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