This garam masala chicken recipe is inspired from traditional Indian butter chicken. Though you can expect a lightened up, healthy version of butter chicken. That’s because this recipe contains no butter and no full-fat cream. Instead it’s a trimmed down version with a lot less calories. It relies on warm spices, onions, garlic and ginger to give it flavor, tomatoes for a little extra umami, and just a little coconut milk to keep you from missing the richness of a traditional Indian dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Years ago we made a trip to India, flying first into Mumbai, then making our way down the coast, with a stopover in Goa (which I would describe as India-light), onto Sai Baba’s Ashram (when in India…) only to travel to the most southern tip to have Nadi readers read my fortune from palm leaves — yes, I saw a travel documentary and had to see for myself. But this was very confusing experience. In order to find “my” palm leaf, the Nadi reader needed my mother’s full name (first, second, third), same with my fathers. So here’s the thing. My mother has changed her name multiple times. First, middle and last. Long story… and yes, this is allowed in Canada. So far she’s had three first names, two middle names, and I’ve lost count on the last names. How could I give this guy a name? Poor man. I’m sure he gave up and read me some random leaves. Yeah, mildly disappointing. Only because we met another couple of travels that were blown away by the experience. Nonetheless, we continued on and made our way to Chennai then finally after a 34 hours train ride, arrived in Delhi for the last portion of our trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So yes, over those 6 weeks, I tried a fair share of authentic Indian foods and came to the conclusion that the food in the south, as spicy as it was, was delicious. On the contrary, in the North what I experienced was neon green and flashing orange, full of food coloring and void of anything “culinary”. It took me years before I could enjoy Indian food again. Okay, perhaps the amoeba that I took home with me had something to do with it. Not the infamous brain-eating amoeba — no one can survive that! — but another bugger that took numerous parasite cleanses and colon hydrotherapy to eradicate. Okay, India wasn’t all the charming. There were moments and places, but for me they were mere flashes. I recommend visiting Nepal — of course this was also ages ago, but I loved it. And the food… amazing!!<\/p>\n\n\n
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