Home Cookin': Chicken Rogan Josh from a box

11.19.06

This food was interesting. We made Indian food from a box. The boxes came from an Indian store in Columbia Heights by a new Super Target. The store was lots of fun, and we decided to give the mixes a try.

The Chicken Rogan Josh was very spicy. I am used to Indian food having lots of unique spices in it, but I can't recall a spicier Indian food meal of those I have eaten. It was like a Thai-spicy level. The others who ate it with us really enjoyed it. We ate it with Spinach Naan from Super Target and tasted the chutney powder with whipped yogurt.

We used a half pound of butter in its cooking- crazy. The box instructed us to fry the meat in ghee, oil, or butter, and we chose butter. DH clarified the butter a little, he would like for you to know that. The recipe was a little strange as it instructed us to fry the meat, then add the other things, never stopping to strain off the frying liquid. This resulted in the two parts separating a little, and requiring the naan to mop up the excess liquid/butter.