oh yes ohhh look at that so luscious
today we're here cooking street food in our home kitchen we travel
full-time making food videos all around the world but we're at home at the
moment and we want to bring some of those street food recipes back into the home
kitchen and give them a go ourselves we are so excited about today's recipe we
were in Delhi in India recently and we filmed the world's best butter chicken
but it is not the butter chicken that you're thinking of this is butter
chicken like I've never seen before and it is gonna be real good we're talking
smoky juicy tender chicken cooked over charcoal and were desperate to get
another taste of the thing so we are going to cook it in our home kitchen
this is an insane recipe with so much butter and I'm pumped to get into this
one I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate let's get cooking
we travel full-time to hunt down the best local food to share with you on
our channel and this series is going to be all about taking those street food
experiences and dishes that we have loved and recreating them here in our
home kitchen so all of the dishes that we cook are gonna be ones that we have
filmed in the past and today it is all about butter chicken
so butter chicken that we ate in Old Delhi in India recently and this
restaurant was knock your socks off the food was absolutely incredible what it
was was a dish made up of marinated chicken in spices and yogurt it was
cooked all over charcoal and then smothered absolutely smothered in a ton
of butter and what the restaurant did was they served their butter chicken
with roomali roti which is really thin flatbread and also some fresh red onions
so that's the recipe that we want to recreate in our home kitchen today but
this series is all about using what we've got in the pantry what we've
already got in the fridge and so we're not following a recipe we're just going
to try and recreate from what we have seen on the streets what we've filmed in
the past that dish right here
this dish is all about chicken now the stall in
Old Delhi was so spectacular so this is the chicken shop right here the famous
place that does the butter chicken assalamualaikum oh my gosh you
wandered up to it and they had all of these marinated chickens just out there
on the street they're marinated in a a masala mixture a spice mixture and also
yogurt and they were precooked maybe to about 3/4 of the way cooked
because as the guy was chopping it up before they were being threaded onto the
skewers you could see that the chicken was not quite cooked through it was
gonna be finished off on those charcoals but what we're going to do is we've just
got chicken nibbles to work with today and we're gonna slap these straight on
to the barbecue after we've marinated them so we've got some spice mixture so
I'm just gonna chuck that all over the chicken and we've got things like
turmeric cumin ground coriander chili there's a bit of cardamom bit of
cinnamon in there as well and then also some yogurt all over that chicken so
this is Greek yogurt which is a bit too thick so I just thinned it down with
some water and now it's just time to get all of those flavors into the chicken so
I'm just gonna massage it all through those chicken nibbles to bring out the
flavor of the chicken we salted the chicken and let it sit
in the fridge for a few hours before we added the spice mixture and also the
yogurt and now for extra extra flavor we also chopped up some garlic and
I've added that to the mix so this is going to sit and marinate in its juices
and in that yogurt mixture for a couple of hours
we want to recreate the exact
meal that we ate at that stall in Delhi and besides the butter chicken we also
ate roomali roti and roomali roti is a really thin flatbread and what we were
doing was tearing apart the flatbread and dunking it into that really luscious
butter chicken gravy so what I've got in front of me is just some really basic
ingredients to create this roomali roti we've got wholemeal flour and
plain flour and also some salt and then we're going to add about a tablespoon of
oil just a plain oil I've got a canola oil here and then I'm gonna add some cold
water to the dough and I want the dough to be quite sticky so let's just mix all of
that up first
so I just kept adding water to the dough until I got a really sort
of sticky consistency you can see how sort of sticky and stretchy that is so
I've just floured the working surface and now I'm just gonna knead the dough
all right I've given it a good kneading and I reckon that's about right so I've
formed a little ball it's just gonna sit in this Pyrex and then I might just
brush a little bit of oil over the top and then it's just going to rest for at
least 30 minutes but it will probably be resting for a couple of hours
so it's been a few hours for the dough to rest and for that chicken to marinate so it's
time to get cooking get into the good stuff so we're gonna use a gas barbecue
for this so on the streets they have an incredible pit of charcoal he was
fanning that charcoal bringing up a beautiful glow and just such a
beautiful heat onto that chicken now we don't have charcoal we don't have access
to charcoal so we're just gonna use use gas so we'll fire that up
oh-ho yes get that flame going and while we're doing waiting for the flame to
come up we're gonna get that chicken skewered up so on the streets in Delhi
they were these huge skewers and they were getting that chicken on there
marinating it on the skewers onto those flames and just watching that chicken
bubbling over the charcoal it was unreal I can't wait to see how this smells when
we get it on the gas oh the smell is insane I can't wait to eat this dish let's get the
chicken on the skewers and get that roomali roti so the dough prepped for
for cooking look at that chicken all the spices in there so ohhh come on now that
marinade is amazing so I've got a bunch of skewers found what we could find in
the cupboard this sword-like one's where we're gonna start this one really is like
they had in India so big steel swords on there so let's get this chicken on and I
just want to thread these onto the skewers so they can go straight onto
that barbecue oh yes
this marinade is so thick it's just coating that chicken so just
like in India we're using chicken on the bone because we want it to be super
tender when this cooks up so just threading it on there on the bone
straight onto these skewers now time to get these on the barbecue as you walked
up to the stall this was the spectacle you saw so those
huge pits of charcoal right on the street front and your eyes were just on
saucers as you were seeing that chicken being cooked right on the street
so ever since we decided to do this recipe this is the bit that I was most
excited about seeing the smells of this the sight of this get this sword like
one on the barbecue oh yeah good sizzle alright let's lay them up get them
sizzling all right it's time to make this roomali roti so the really
paper-thin flatbread so I've got the dough it's just been sort of sitting
there for a couple of hours it's quite sticky look at that all right
what we've got to do is make some little little dough balls so roll that right up
and then we've got to use the rolling pin which I've got here and then roll
it's super super super thin the dough is really sticky so I added a lot more
flour to the table top so that it wouldn't stick so much oh look at that
it's like oh it's really sticky now we didn't actually see these being made at
the stall so we don't really have anything to go off so no footage to see
how they were doing it but we're hoping for the best getting it really super
super thin
man these are smelling so good
on the grill but what I'm gonna do is just give them a bit of a baste to just
get the rest of all that marinade all over those bits of chicken and look at
the chicken it is so golden and crispy let's get a bit of flame going to get
this charcoal oh yes get that char onto the chicken
this roomali roti is so
hard to work with the dough is so stretchy so I've completely given up on
trying to make it a circular shape I'm just trying to make it as thin as
possible and completely tearing it as I'm trying to get it up off of this
marble oh my gosh this is so not working let's try this one okay oh this is a bit better
right so we've got a square roomali roti and we're gonna cook it over this
upturned steamer so in India they cook it over this dome like so so they drape it
over the dome and that's how they get like this beautiful circular shape
who knows if this is going to work so I've got the element on the steamer
which is turned upside down over the heat and then I've draped the roti
over the top of the steamer and hopefully it's just gonna cook in that
fashion I can see some little bubbles forming and it looks like it's getting
oh yeah it is look it's like definitely cooking ouch it's hot it's definitely
cooking all right we're gonna leave it on there for a few more minutes all
right so the the center of the roomali roti is cooked so you can see that char
on it I'm just gonna turn it over it's like half cooked half not
this is such a disaster it's super fun having a little bit of a play
around though
this roomali roti is an utter write-off it is completely the
opposite of what a roomali roti is supposed to be a roomali roti is
supposed to be really thin really soft really malleable this is like a dried
old crispy burnt mess
the roti might be a failure but what's important is this
butter so we when we were up at the stall they had stacks and stacks of blocks of
butter and they were putting just whole blocks of butter straight into the pan
which was sitting on top of the charcoal and letting it just bubble up so we're
gonna use a sizable amount there's only two of us so we don't need the whole
block and that's going straight into the pan there and we're gonna let that melt
right down and bubble up and that's gonna go right over that grilled chicken
the second it comes off the grill
I cranked the heat up on the barbie and I
put the lid down just to really get some oh yes some char onto these because
that's what I wanted oh look at that some flames coming up I really wanted to
get that char on there and now I think it's time to get them off so what we've
got is a bowl of yogurt so full of again quite runny yogurt we've watered that
down so it's not too thick so this is just like we had it in India and
let's just get these off the skewer and straight into this yogurt ohhhh it's a bit
crammed on the end there where it's charred oh these look unreal okay there we go
full bowl of that chicken and now it's time for the real fun we're gonna get
that butter that's on the stove and drench this chicken in that melted
butter all right so the butter has just been bubbling away it's all melted and
now it's going straight over the chicken oh look at that
so luscious wooooo hooooo
at the stall after pouring on the butter they chucked some masala
over the top so I'm just gonna put some garam masala over that lot the smell is just insane
when this dish arrived on our table in India we both just went whoa
whoa check out this pile
of chicken that has arrived in front of us
this my friends is butter chicken check out all of that butter
and this is no different and this is no different at all oh well
it smells amazing okay well that's not as
impressive the roomali roti looks kind of like burnt cardboard it was like a total
failure but that's fine because this is the main game Wow
so it's just sitting in this pool of butter and yogurt and I reckon we've
just gotta dive in dive right in gotta scoop that chicken down through the
yogurt and the butter oh it's golden whoaaaa it's just coated and the
smell of the butter so you've got the spices and the butter very strong smell
get in there oh man oh the way the yogurt and the butter is
combo-ing up
holy moly wow oh now there's a street food that I'm happy to bring to
the home kitchen and it works roomali roti needs some
practice but that that works the chicken is so tender it's really crispy and
smoky on the outside and the yogurt and the butter adds this really rich luscious
layer unreal unreal let's try this roomali roti don't eat the raw bit
raw bits
it's like a chip really, I'm gonna dip that
so in reality the roomali roti should be
really soft is it okay sort of like a chip looks
terrible some of it's inedible but other bits are quite good but man this
chicken mmm unbelievably good super fun day of cooking street food at home so
taking what we're seeing out there around the world on the streets and
doing it at home there are gonna be loads more of these episodes coming up
so stay tuned tons and tons of street food recreations in our home kitchen
let's get into this oh yes