Cowboys & Indians – Butter Chicken

The first night one of the four couples had arrived in Cheltenham and we opted to go to an Indian restaurant for dinner. Now knowing that Indian takeaways is UK’s number one national dish I thought, great, buttered chicken. No sign of it on the menu but the menu stated if there was something we did not see then just ask so I did. “Oh yes” he said we can do Buttered Chicken. Well it did not resemble of taste like any Buttered Chicken I know of. Having worked and travelled through India I knew what if should look like and taste like. I ended up with oversweet coconut flavoured stuff with massive lumps of chicken in it. Oh well I tasted the other couple’s chicken tika and that tasted closer than mine. Anyway a good night out and a good catchup after five years of seeing the family.

The UK redeemed itself tonight (Sunday night) at Manchester where I had a great Buttered chicken at Aamchi Mumbai restaurant with great service. I should have asked them to send the recipe to Cheltenham.