Grammy's Kitchen · Chicken Curry · Butter Chicken
One of 171 chicken curry recipes we measured
from therecipecritic.com
2 cooks on therecipecritic.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 171.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 53% | 47% |
| fat | 12% | 3% |
| aromatics | 9% | 17% |
| sweetener | 2% | 0% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| vegetables and beans | 18% | 24% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 680 g | 1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs, (cut into 1-inch pieces) |
| 122 g | 1/2 cup plain whole-milk yogurt |
| 12 g | 2 tablespoons garam masala |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon cumin |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons coriander |
| 1 teaspoon tumeric | |
| 6 g | 2 garlic cloves, (minced) |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, (minced) |
| 1/2 lemon, (juiced) | |
| 8 g | 2 teaspoons kosher salt |
| 27 g | 2 tablespoons olive oil |
| 49 g | 3 tablespoons tomato paste |
| 122 g | 1/2 cup tomato sauce |
| 57 g | 1/4 cup butter |
| 13 g | 1 tablespoon brown sugar, (or to taste) |
| 238 g | 1 cup heavy cream |
Method: 6 steps, published by therecipecritic.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Chicken does not require the same marinade time as beef. Longer than 12 hours will affect the texture of the meat. If using thighs, 3 hours is all that is needed. (dark meat needs less time.) Breasts *white meat, 3 hours up to 12 hours. If you better want to i” — a cook
“We used to make this all the time before the recipe was updated and fundamentally changed (ingredients and directions). This is not the same recipe we enjoyed. We will be using a different recipe from now on.” — a cook