Butter Chicken

In my mission to eat healthier, I’m trying to have my husband and I eat more meals at home, which pretty much means that I’ll be cooking. He doesn’t cook. I don’t know about you, but when I get home from work, I don’t feel like making something that will take a ton of effort.

If you share in this thought process, you’ll love Passage Food’s Butter Chicken Simmer Sauce packet because it is super easy.

In 2013, Mom took me to Disney world to celebrate my graduation from college. On this trip, we discovered one of my most favorite Disney restaurants–Sanaa. This restaurant is at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, which means that you get to see some pretty amazing animals outside the windows while eating your meal. The food is a mixture of African and Indian inspired cuisine with everything from Tandoori Lamb to a Grilled New York Stip steak. There’s something for everyone here.

Besides starting out with the Indian-Style Bread Service–which is phenomenal, by the way–we both picked the Slow-Cooked in Gravy, Simple and Well-seasoned-Dinner. You get to pick from two different rices and a variety of meats. We both had the basmati rice, butter chicken, and something else. I can’t remember what the other meat was, but I’m pretty sure Mom got the beef short ribs and I got some sort of fish. But when Kevin and I went on our honeymoon last year, we both picked double doses of butter chicken. Mom and I had raved about it so much that he had decided to get whatever I was having.

The butter chicken at Sanaa is made of tender cooked chicken in a pool melt in your mouth delicious sauce. I have cravings for this stuff! In the picture below, from the left, is butter chicken, basmati rice, and some sort of shrimp. (If you follow the link attached to the picture, you can learn about dining with an animal specialist.

So, when I saw Passage Food’s packet of butter chicken wonderfulness at Meijers, I had to try it. As you can probably tell, I have some high standards for butter chicken. And this packet did not disappoint.

While it isn’t exactly the same thing that you can find at Sanaa, I didn’t expect it to. I don’t have fairy dust in my kitchen. Or it could be that I don’t add the optional cream…either way, it’s delicious!

All you do is chop up about a pound of chicken and then sear it in a pan with some olive oil before pouring the beautiful sauce all over it and stirring it to make sure the chicken is all coated. Then, cover the pan and let the chicken cook all the way.

We enjoy our chicken with jasmine rice brought to you by Success Boil-in-Bag. It’s super easy because you cook it in the microwave and it’s a great way to absorb all that wonderful sauce.

This is also something that my husband enjoys. We’ve actually had it two weeks in a row now and he asked me to get lots of chicken and butter sauce packets when I asked him what kind of groceries he wanted this week. Remember how I said you use a pound of chicken? Well, I also make two bags of jasmine rice (there’s probably two-three servings in each bag). When dinner is ready, I get some rice and then put some chicken and an ample portion of sauce on top of it. Then, Kevin puts the rest of the rice in a bigger bowl before dumping what’s left of the chicken and sauce on top of that.

We don’t usually have leftovers in our home. But we certainly have full bellies!

If you’re looking for a quick, delicious meal, I highly suggest that you add this to your to-make list.