My first try at Indian Food Cooking

We had been holding off having Indian food b/c Shirley needed a break from all the lentils, but last night i finally broke down and made myself an Indian dinner. I made butter chicken and Punjab choley. Actually that's stretching the truth, the Punjab choley was an mre (I bet only Harjeet knows what that is) and all I had to do was drop it in hot water. But I did make the butter chicken from scratch.

I used this recipe from allrecipes.com. I made my own garam masala by combining cumin, tumeric, cinnamon, ground cloves, and cayenne. As we all know it's the spices that make Indian food and as soon as I combined these it smelt just like India.

The garam masala combination

Whipping up the sauce and chicken.

Here is the final product. No, it didn't taste as good as the dishes we've had in Indian. The sauce was too thick and pasty. I think next time we'll use less tomato puree and cornstarch. I still enjoyed it though.