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Curry Photos & Videos => Pictures of Your Curries => Topic started by: Kashmiri Bob on December 01, 2022, 10:35 AM
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Chicken Tikka
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Lazizza tikka botti paste, a little orange food colouring, Coleman's mint sauce and veg oil. Still my favourite tikka.
Balti Aphrodisiac
Loosely based on Lora Munro's recipe.
https://thebirminghambaltibowlco.com/blogs/news/balti-aphrodisiac
Using MDB's 10/10 balti base here, so was able to leave out/reduce most of Lora's ingredients.
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Settled on 1/2 tsp cumin powder and 1/2 tsp ground green cardamon. 2 tsp dried methi. Coconut flour mixed with double cream (instead of coconut milk). 1 tbsp grated ginger. Tiny pinch of gm and chopped pistachio to finish.
Not bad, fiery. One chilli would have been enough (used 3 small red). A few curry leaves would turn it into a fancy Chicken Ceylon (with nuts). I would play it safe and stick with Balti Chicken as a Valentine's day special.
Balti Chicken Jalfrezi
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Low on base gravy for this one. More oil than base to be honest. I was tempted to look for a slotted spoon and sizzler dish, to fashion a Chicken Shashlik out of it, but carried on.
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Well, it doesn't appear to be under-cooked. Perhaps I should have left more of the oil in. Still lush though. This one is a keeper. The balti oil is just out of this world!
Rob
Mixed up the photos. The Jalfer in the pan is a Balti Chicken Jalfrezi. The one presented in the balti bowl is this one, which is actually a Balti Chicken Tikka and Mushroom Jalfrezi, I think :)
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That tikka looks proper lush. I know you mention Lazizza tikka botti paste, but there's a dry packet as well. Do you know if they're interchangeable? Never actually tried this and might give it a go.
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It does look good. I've used the powder Santa and I like it. I've never tried the paste so I can't say they are the same, but it is good nonetheless. I like all the Laziza products I've tried so far which is more than I can say for other "ready to use" masala packets.
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Recall using the tikka botti packet and it was pretty good. The paste is top notch though, imo. I googled the ingredients for the packet and copied them for the paste.
Packet
Red Chilli, Coriander, Powder, Salt, Turmeric, Dried Garlic 3%, Dried Ginger 3%, Dried Mango, Paprika, Roasted Cumin Powder, Black Pepper, Cardamom, Tartaric Acid, Food Colour E-110 (FD&C Yellow 6), Food Colour E-129 (FD&C Red 40).
Paste
Red Chilli, Coriander, Salt, Turmeric, Soybean oil, water, garlic 7 %, Ginger 7 %, Roasted Cumin Powder, Black Pepper, Cardamom, Colour Paprika Extract, Acidity Regulators Citric Acid (E-330), Acetic Acid (E-260).
I was expecting more ingredients. No artificial colours in the paste, which is probably why I add some (BIR style). Definitely root ginger in the paste. You can see it. Reckon the plentiful steeped oil in the paste lifts it to another level.
Worth a go Santa, either. I think the consensus on here was that Laziza is best for a tikka starter, it's rather bold for some of the milder curries.
I find all other tikka offerings pretty dull by comparison, even though they usually need more prep. Don't get me started on some of the rubbish TA/restaurant tikka, hereabouts anyway :)
Agree with livo on their other packet mixes. In particular had some good results using the Yakhni Pulao. Just adding it to one-pot trad style curries. Had no luck with their seekh kebab mix though.
Rob
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I'll have to get over to the corner shop then. He sells the dry packet but I don't think he has the paste which is why I asked.