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I put my homemade butter chicken up against two restaurants. I thought I’d spot mine instantly. Instead, I overanalyzed every bite.The final reveal? Absolutely humbling. Watch till the end — the twist says it all 👀
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So, I'm back with another taste test
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video. Those seem to be going pretty
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well. And this time, we are looking at
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butter chicken. And I'm going to try to
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wrap up this intro part rather quickly.
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I'm sure you'll be happy as well because
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the butter chickens, the two that I got
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from the restaurants and the one that I
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made, which we'll be doing a blind taste
0:20
test for, are all here. They're all
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ready. And I just can't wait to dig in.
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Now, these taste tests are a lot of fun.
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I won't know which dish I'll be taking a
0:30
blind taste out of. My misses behind the
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camera will be helping with it and I'll
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judge based on certain categories. Check
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out what we did for fries, what we did
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for pizza and for chicken nuggets.
0:42
Today's categories for the comparison
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for the blind taste test are the
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chicken. How good is the chicken? Did
0:50
they actually make a chicken tikka first
0:52
before adding it to the sauce? Next, how
0:55
good is the sauce? Does it have the
0:57
right texture? The consistency. Then
0:59
comes flavor. Is it too spicy? Is it too
1:02
sweet? I did ask the restaurants to make
1:05
it medium, not spicy, not mild. Butter
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chicken was born in Delhi. I've had all
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kinds of butter chicken even from like
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legendary places like Motel, Kareem's in
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Old Delhi. I've had that. So, I have a
1:20
certain baseline of what to expect. Now,
1:23
what's cool about this taste test video
1:25
is just a cool full circle kind of
1:28
moment because the only reason why I
1:29
started cooking seriously when I came to
1:32
Canada as a student was because I was
1:34
missing that Delhi flavor and I just
1:37
couldn't get it at the restaurants I
1:40
tried like maybe like 10 plus years ago.
1:43
So, if you also have your own recipe and
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you want to get closer to the Delhi
1:49
style butter chicken that I grew up
1:51
with, then check out this mistakes video
1:54
that I made on what most people get
1:56
wrong when they make butter chicken at
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home. So, the three butter chickens that
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we are trying are, of course, mine. I've
2:04
been making this for a number of years.
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It came from a a chef that my mom um
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used to watch as a kid. I would watch
2:13
him with her. Um, his name is Sanjie
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Kapoor. That's where the recipe kind of
2:18
came out of. The second one is from a
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local place called Kolinga. Actually,
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I've never had the butter chicken. I've
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had the chicken tikka masala and I've
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had that other like sauce based dishes,
2:27
but never butter chicken. But I know
2:29
this place is good. And we tried to find
2:31
options for this third choice, this
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third butter chicken that is highly
2:35
rated. And even like people from Toronto
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who have much better restaurants um much
2:41
better Indian cuisine where they are
2:43
when they tried this little India cafe
2:46
they raved about it which is why we
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picked this one.
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Okay, now it's time for the taste test.
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And of course I won't know which
3:00
version I'll be trying first. My eyes
3:02
will be closed. So let's shuffle this
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up.
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[Music]
3:22
That is good.
3:25
Is it authentic though? First thing is
3:27
the chicken tikka. Is smoky? I can't
3:30
tell. If they did, I can't tell. The
3:33
chicken itself is very soft,
3:36
but it doesn't give me the chicken tikka
3:40
experience. Cuz remember, butter chicken
3:43
is chicken tikka mixed in a mcconey
3:46
sauce. Tikka itself, I'm going to give
3:49
it a three. A three because it was soft,
3:54
juicy, but didn't have
3:57
a classic smokeoky aroma and flavor that
4:00
I'm looking for in a chicken ticker. The
4:02
sauce. Ooh, creamy.
4:06
Very good sauce. I feel like there's
4:08
onion in it, though. I may be wrong, but
4:10
I think there's onion in it. Sauce. I'm
4:12
going to give it good four. It was a
4:14
tasty sauce. I would have it again.
4:17
Flavor right now cuz I haven't tasted
4:18
the others. It's a four.
4:21
Delicious bite. Authenticity is where I
4:24
cannot give it a good amount of points.
4:28
I think there's onion in it. We'll find
4:30
out later as I look deeper into it. It's
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not a super creamy aromatic sauce.
4:36
What? Bro, what are you talking about,
4:38
man?
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The sauce. Ooh, creamy.
4:43
Very good sauce. It's a tasty sauce.
4:46
It's a bit sweet and it doesn't taste
4:48
like any of the classic butter chicken
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spots I've had. It includes Kareem's,
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Moti Mahel, and one of my childhood
4:54
restaurants that I used to go to, Chore
4:57
Bazaar. I don't even know if it's open
4:59
anymore. Even Baoji Kadava, it's a
5:02
throwback for me. It doesn't even come
5:04
close to that. So, I'm going to give
5:07
authenticity a one. Okay, number two.
5:13
[Music]
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No, I think that one's full of onion.
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The chicken almost had no flavor. which
5:27
is like looks like blanch chicken. I'm
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going to give the chicken I think in
5:30
this case a two. I want the sauce again.
5:33
Give me the saucing. Yeah, it's it's
5:35
very oniony chunky. It's a good sauce.
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It's just not butter chicken sauce. I'll
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give it a three. Authenticity. I'm going
5:42
to give it a one. It's just it's just
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it's a tasty dish with bland. It's a
5:46
tasty sauce actually with bland chicken,
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but it's not authentic to butter
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chicken. And then flavor, pretty
5:52
average. I would not mind if I don't
5:54
have it again. I'm going to give that a
5:56
two.
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[Music]
6:07
You know, tasting the other two
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chickens, the last two ones that I had,
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I think the first one did have some
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smokiness cuz these ones, they just seem
6:14
like they're full of water. They don't
6:16
have much flavor. Can I taste the first
6:18
one again?
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Okay, not that bite. cuz now I have the
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metric of the other two chickens that I
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had before this the before the rebite.
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This one does have more flavor. I have
6:30
to give that a four because I did I
6:32
think I got a nice piece that was nicely
6:34
charred. So that gives me that chicken
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tikka kind of experience that I was
6:37
looking for. You know, give me the sauce
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for the one before the for the third
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one.
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It just is very greasy. Give me the
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first sauce again.
6:53
First one is just creamy. Very luscious.
6:55
So sauce. I think I got a better bite of
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it. It's like four out of five. Give me
6:59
a full bite again.
7:05
Whichever one that was, it does kind of
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remind me of uh this super like nutty
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like almonds and cashews filled sauce
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that I've had at one of the Motel
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locations. Not the original ones, but
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the other one.
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But that's just for a split second. For
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a split second and then it just the
7:24
bland chicken and the whatever else it
7:26
is that's in that sauce takes over. So I
7:29
think that's going to be a one. An
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authentic. I think I'm going to give
7:31
this a three. Like it's very good. It
7:35
definitely reminds me of the butter
7:37
chickens I grew up with. But I can't
7:39
really pinpoint right now where the two
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points are missing here. Authenticity.
7:44
If the scale was these butter chickens
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in terms of authenticity compared to
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each other, whichever one I had before
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this is five. But if how it compares to
7:53
actual delhi ones that I remember
7:55
having, then maybe like a high three.
7:57
Yeah. The sauce is good, but it's very
7:59
greasy. Chicken is just bland. Like it's
8:03
a one, I think,
8:05
because it's kind of dry, very chewy.
8:09
Like it's kind of soft, but it's like a
8:11
like dry chicken that's soft. Maybe
8:13
because it's like bin sauce, you know?
8:15
Chicken is like a one. Sauce is maybe
8:17
like a two. Tasty sauce. The first
8:20
couple of when it touches your tongue,
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you're like, "Oh, wow." And then it just
8:23
like kind of disintegrates into like
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grease. Flavor was like like if you're
8:27
late at night, you're craving butter
8:29
chicken. I'm I can see myself settling
8:31
down with this. Right. But I think the
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second one maybe that I had is
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definitely better than this one. Two was
8:40
better flavor. One was the best.
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[Music]
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one was yours.
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But it's funny cuz you were saying it's
8:52
not authentic and how come was this like
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you found it like oniony?
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Really?
8:57
Yeah. You said, "Oh, I think there might
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be onion."
9:00
So this is yours and
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maybe it was the kasuri that song
9:04
garnish. My butter chicken is not
9:05
authentic. I don't know. I couldn't
9:07
actually didn't know instantly that it
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was mine. I didn't know. You would think
9:11
you know and you can trust your palette.
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Yeah. Let me find out why I thought mine
9:16
had onion because clay doesn't have any
9:18
onion. It is very sweet and and has some
9:21
like spice too. Maybe I had like a
9:23
preconceived notion that the first one
9:25
you're going to do is going to be one of
9:27
the restaurants one. But yeah, let's see
9:28
what I thought it was onion.
9:31
Not to blow smoke, but maybe the chicken
9:33
was so tender that I thought what I was
9:36
chewing with that sauce that was so nice
9:38
and tasty.
9:40
was onion but I don't when I'm having it
9:43
now I don't I don't think about onion.
9:46
Yeah. What were the others?
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Okay. That was Kenga and that was the
9:50
little India.
9:51
Which one was Kena? Number two.
9:53
Yeah.
9:53
Kinga was good though, huh?
9:55
Yeah.
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Like compared to like the other one that
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we thought was Toronto's favorite. The
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third one. This one like this doesn't
10:01
even like look like butter chicken. Like
10:04
I don't it's a tasty dish
10:06
but looking at it you wouldn't know it's
10:08
butter chicken unless that's all you've
10:11
been told is butter chicken. And that's
10:13
exactly my problem with I guess
10:16
westernized Indian food. Like
10:19
it's a great dish by itself. It's just
10:21
not butter chicken. And this one that I
10:23
thought according to Reddit was going to
10:24
be like the best one. Maybe like the
10:27
savior so that I don't have to make
10:29
butter chicken myself. It looks like it,
10:32
but it doesn't taste like it. And that
10:34
that betrayal that betrayal is what I've
10:38
experienced so often, which is why I
10:42
started making it myself. And we clearly
10:45
found out today that mean I don't think
10:47
that mine is the most authentic version
10:49
of the butter chicken that I grew up
10:51
with, but it's the closest that I've
10:53
been able to come up to replicating what
10:57
I truly love about this dish. Maybe
11:01
there are secrets in those Indian
11:03
kitchens at those restaurants I love
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that I just don't know yet. Maybe like
11:08
have to like smoke it like with the
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dungar method where you have some ghee,
11:13
some charcoal, and you smoke the entire
11:15
dish. Maybe the tomatoes are smoked
11:18
before you make the actual sauce. Maybe
11:21
that's the secret. I don't know. But I
11:24
know that is very, very tasty and the
11:27
closest I've been able to come to Delhi
11:29
style butter chicken. So what we learned
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is
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you can't really trust at least in
11:35
Ottawa or I guess even people on Reddit
11:38
what true India style butter chicken is.
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A lot of people love a lot of things.
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They think they know what authentic is.
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Maybe I'm completely wrong as well.
11:48
Maybe I've just lost it. But I'm telling
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you as somebody from Delhi grew up
11:53
having butter chicken. These other two
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versions
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not it. Mine is close to it, the closest
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I've come. If you have tips, if you
12:04
maybe work at one of these restaurants I
12:06
mentioned and are watching and you have
12:08
tips on how I can improve mine to make
12:11
it more like yours, then tell me.
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Comments are open. This was fun. I
12:17
essentially had an entire meal cuz I had
12:19
so many reites. So, make sure you check
12:21
out the video on how to avoid the most
12:22
common mistakes people make while making
12:25
butter chicken. Check out my butter
12:27
chicken recipe. Give me your thoughts.
12:29
Give me your tips.
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