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Everything you need to know about how to make Chicken 65!

I learned a lot of fantastic chicken 65 recipes while travelling the UK, researching for my second cookbook ‘The Curry Guy Easy’.

It was one of the most popular recipes in that book so I featured it in ‘The Curry Guy Bible’ too!

As you will see, there are a lot of ingredients in this famous dish. For this reason, I almost didn’t include it in the EASY book.

So don’t let all those ingredients scare you off! This recipe is super easy and delicious

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Forward preparation

Be sure to get your ingredients lined up and you can make delicious chicken 65 in no time. Getting your ingredients ready will make things a lot easier.

For best results, you should marinate the chicken overnight but I often only marinate it for an hour or so.

Once you have your chicken marinating, all you need to do is deep fry the chicken before the final cooking. This can actually be done a day or so ahead of serving as the chicken reheats in the pan. 

About this chicken 65 recipe…

There are so many different recipes for chicken 65  but they are all quite similar. I like to serve it as a starter but it also makes a great snack. The spicy and crispy chicken pieces are to die for.

An optional extra is to stir in red chilli sauce to finish it all off. You could use the hot sauce of your choice and yes… shop bought is fine. I use Frank’s 

I have also tried chicken 65 many times in India and found the dish there to be very similar to those we get in the west. Perhaps that is why it has become so popular worldwide.

Once you’ve made the recipe, you will want to make in again and again.

Ever wondered why the dish is called ‘chicken 65’?

I’ve heard so many stories about how chicken 65 got its name. One was that the original chicken 65 had sixty-fine ingredients in it.

Although I have tried, I have yet to find a recipe that calls for that many ingredients but it is a possibility.

A more believable explanation was that chicken 65 was always the 65th option on the menu at popular restaurants in India. There were a lot of different dishes on the menus.

Diners would simply look for the 65th item on the menu and know it would be amazing.

Although this recipe does include red food colouring for the meat, it is not necessary for you to do so.

The colouring adds a nice colour that many people expect in a chicken 65 but that colouring has no flavour at all.

These step by step chicken 65 recipe photos should help you get the recipe just right.

Here are more curry house curry favourites you might like to try!

• • • Chicken Korma
    • Chicken Madras
    • Chicken Dhansak
    • Lamb Rogan Josh
    • Lamb Vindaloo
    • Chicken Chilli Garlic
    • Chicken Patia
    • Lamb Bhuna
    • Chicken Tikka Masala
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      This chicken 65 recipe is served at all of my curry feasts!

      

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  Chicken 65

  

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  Prep Time 20 minutes

  Cook Time 10 minutes

  Additional Time 30 minutes

  Total Time 1 hour

  Ingredients

  • 1 top and bottom burger bun
  • 140g top quality minced beef (ask your butcher for a 60% meat 40% fat mix) This is very important
  • 3 sliced of lettuce cut to the same size as the bun
  • 1 tomato slice cut to the same size as the bun.
  • 1 onion slice about the same size as the bun
  • 4 - 5 dill pickle slices (At In-n-Out they use four but I couldn't find any big enough so I used five)
  • 2 teaspoons French's yellow mustard
  • 2 pieces of American cheese
  • 1 tablespoon special sauce (recipe above)

  Instructions

  1. Divide the beef into two equal sized ball and then flatten with a spatula until they are about the same size as the bottom bun.
  2. Season generously with salt and pepper and then fry over high heat for about two minutes.
  3. Spread one teaspoon of the mustard on the rare side and then flip over.
  4. Place a piece of cheese on top of each burger and cook for a further two minutes. Then flip one last time so that the cheese is on the grill for about 30 seconds. Remove and keep warm.
  5. Working quickly, spread the special sauce over the bottom bun followed by the pickles, tomato and lettuce.
  6. Now stack one of the burgers on top of the lettuce.
  7. Top this burger with the sliced onion and then the other burger.
  8. Place the top bun on the burger and enjoy with one or two cold lagers.

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