Baratie Exclusive Recipes - Cream Chicken

Apart from reviewing restaurants, we also publish delightful, easy and hassle-free recipes for our readers. This is our first attempt in this series and we chose to shed light upon the rare recipe of Cream Chicken to start off with.

Ingredients

• Chicken - with bone or boneless - 1/2 Kg
• Milk - 2 cups
• Cream - 200-250 g
• Black Pepper - 1 teaspoon
• Salt - 1 teaspoon
• Bread Slices - as much you like

Steps

1. Take a cooking pan, heat it for a minute on high flame
2. Put washed and cleaned chicken in it and cook it for 1 minute as it is.
3. Add 1 cup of milk in the pan and decrease the flame to medium and let the chicken cook in milk for about 20 mins till it becomes juicy and tender.



Chicken being cooked in milk

4. Check after 20 mins if the chicken has tendered or not, it will look something like this:

cooked!

          5. You can add 1 cup of milk more if the chicken is still not that soft after inspection.

          6. Now when the chicken has been properly cooked, add salt to taste and 1 tea spoon of black pepper
          7. Add 200-250 g of cream. This entirely depends on you, how much you want to add, while making this particular chicken we used 250 g to be truthful, Yes! we like it creamy!
          8. Stir it all well for once and let it cook for another 2 minutes.
          9. The chicken is ready, pour it in your serving vessel at the time of the meal to maintain its texture and creaminess.
        10. Garnish with Mint leaves and cinnamon powder.

 

Enjoy!!! with bread slices as per our suggestion.

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The First Review - Gourmet 9 Restaurant, Hotel Turqoise Chandigarh

It's the blog's first review and nothing came to mind else than the elite tasting site ,Gourmet 9 Restaurant situated inside Hotel Turqoise, Chandigarh.

Before directly jumping on to the alluring food, we would like to talk about the appearance and appeal of the Restaurant.*The wooden floor cranks*

Beautiful! is the first adjective that comes to your mind when you enter the premises, the modernly designed interior with artistic figures all around to catch your attention and wooden flooring tapping with your every step into this awesome place. Cleanliness and interior decor are of high standards and very comforting. See images of the restaurant here.

The Food

So, I am Virinder, hello to all readers!

It was a casual walk around as I got down from the bus at Tribune Chownk, Chandigarh, when I noticed this classy looking building called Turqoise, held by it's charm I decided to pay a visit and get my taste buds to work. 

I was nicely greeted inside and helped to a neat table and chair. The Menu around here is vast, mostly filled with traditional and rich dishes that we don't get too often to even hear about. Rolling eyes over and flipping a few pages, I ordered myself Vegetable Dum Biryani.

Not the original picture of the Biryani served at the restaraunt, forgot to take a selfie with it :p

Cuisine    :Indian and Arabic
Category : Veg Main Course

Biryani is traditional rice meal containing a vast variety of herbs, spices and fresh vegetables (meat in the non veg variation). It is usually prepared by mixing rice with a stew of all the above mentioned ingredients and cooked all together, however 'Dum Biryani' is a bit different as it's prepared by keeping the uncooked ingredients in a small vessel which are slowly oven cooked over several hours. The pot is sealed so that the ingredients are cooked in their own juices, creating a stand-apart flavor which cannot be achieved otherwise.

Gourmet 9's Dum Biryani is unsealed as served. The fresh emanating steam that has been cooking it from inside takes you by surprise. An intense aroma. The rice used is 2 cm long high end Basmati along with chopped fresh veggies and semi cooked spices. You can feel the crisp of these spices when they release their strong flavor in your mouth. The Biryani has ginger-ish domination along with Tomato-Onion puree stew. The ingredients speak quality and the preparation speaks skill. Fresh Coriander leaves however were not used, which added to its authenticity as they would have been burnt in this method of preparation. If I am too describe the overall taste, I would say it was strong and does complete justice to your tongue if you really seek out strong taste in food. The combination of a complete variety of spices nicely appreciating the premium quality of rice. It is served along with Raita (Spiced vegetable fresh curd blend ) which makes up for the dryness of Biryani and compliments the strong flavor in your mouth. This way, Biryani only becomes more enjoyable.

This wraps up the first visit to Gourmet 9, as I was alone I could only try one dish at a time, more visits coming soon with more lucrative food.

Ratings:

Food : 4 on 5

Cleanliness and decor : 5 on 5

Overall : 4 on 5