Butter Chicken! Who doesn't like butter chicken, especially when it is combined with instant noodles? I picked this up when I saw this limited edition cup noodle at Candysan. Curry noodles are usually pretty good so it wasn't risky either. Aside from that, if you have had their Chili Tomato instant ramen before, you know that instant noodles do work with tomato quite nicely. The ingredients that go into butter chicken are chicken, tomato, a mild curry sauce (with all the spices that entails), cream / butter / ghee, and some other things. It is basically chicken in a creamy spiced tomato sauce.
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| View of the butter chicken cup noodle. You can see that it has a distinct oval branding for the butter chicken using a gold and dark green border that is overlayed on top of a regular cup noodle graphics. |
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| The top has some Indian style motifs on it in light and dark green - some kind of leaf? Curry leaf? I'm not sure. A packet of butter oil is on the top - for the butter part of the butter chicken I guess. |
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| The side of the cup shows a nice picture of the butter chicken sauce and noodles with a bold green rooster up top. There is some English lettering going around the gold band inside the dark green oval border. It says "Your favorite quick, easy and portable meal just keeps getting better." Graphics are different from any of the others I've seen. |
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| There's lots of writing on this cup. Manufacturers information and ingredients. |
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| A blurb about butter chicken up top and the spices. Nutritional information on the right, under the Taj Mahal. |
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| Another view of the top of the cup. |
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| Opening the lid reveals lots of topping and ground up curry sauce ingredients. There is green onion, dehydrated chicken, red peppers, dehydrated tomato puree, curry sauce powder, and of course the instant noodles. |
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| After adding boiling water and waiting three minutes, this is what I saw. |
The noodles rehydrated nicely and the curry soup base needed a lot of stirring to fully blend all of the powder. There was tomato puree on the top that needed to be mixed in. The instant curries in general have a lot of soup powder as a curry is thicker than just a thin soup. Some of the curry powder tends to clump at the bottom so you need to really mix it up and get at the edges of the cup. After all, you do want all of the flavour to come out. This might sound like a lot of work, but curry cup noodles tend to be really delicious for your efforts! After all this I then added most of the butter oil to complete the flavour profile of the curry and stirred it again. There was a distinct butter aroma from the soup afterwards and you can adjust how buttery you want it as you add the flavour oil yourself.
The creamy looking soup tasted pretty nice, and you could tell it was supposed to be butter chicken, but not as thick and creamy as a real butter chicken. Tomato was a distinct flavour in it with a bit of tartness and a buttery note mixed in, but the overall effect with the curry base was nice. The noodles are a little wider than the regular noodles (I believe) as I think it works better with the thicker soup. This was a good cup of noodle and I wouldn't say no to a second one.
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| Closeup of the noodles with a piece of chicken, some green onion, and red bell peppers. |
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