One question, if I may Stephen ?  Why have you decided to "make all [your] curries with Chicken Tikka" ? 

We will have to wait for Stephen to answer for himself, but I know what I've just found.  Stephen has referred to the Cook4one website resource.  I've seen it before but never really paid it much attention.  I think that may have been a mistake.  So, today I found another future "go to" pre-cooked Chicken.  I usually do Misty Ricardo's because I like the depth of flavour he gives to both chicken and lamb pre-cooks, and I will continue to use it.

However, if you haven't yet tried it, you need to try Cook4one "fake" chicken tikka pre-cook.  I'm planning on a Butter Chicken (Makhani Gravy already made) and probably a CTM.  This chicken isn't Tandoor or oven or grill. Simply spiced and boil, like other pre-cook chicken.  Amazing for tikka / tandoor style chicken curry and so easy.  I used Tandoori Paste instead of powder masala and I pimped it out by adding some G&G paste, dried mint leaf and a squirt of LJ plus a little Deggi Mirch for good measure.  I think next time I do it, I'll also include a splash of Mustard Oil.

My Taz base dishes have been put off till tomorrow because we have too many leftovers in the fridge.  Taz base done. Mixed Powder done. Pre-cook lamb, chicken and fake chicken tikka done.  Makhani gravy done. Frozen Roti Parathas in the freezer.  Spice sensitive daughter on holiday trip for 10 days.  Mrs Livo will be over curry by the time they get back.

MURGH MAKHANI

This all that is left of this recipe.  Just the title.

Livo, I have one recipe typed up long ago that uses Taz base.  I just entitled it ‘Taz Basic Curry’. Must’ve been ok for me if I typed it up - I have others from Chef Syed, Romain / Glebe, Rik etc etc

Taz Basic Curry
400ml Taz base
3 TBSP chopped tomatoes
4 cloves garlic
1 1/2 tsp Taz mix powder
1/4 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp kasuri methi
Pre-cooked chicken

Taz Mix Powder
8 parts turmeric
5 parts coriander
4 parts mild madras curry powder
4 parts cumin
3 parts paprika

Add 200 ml base to pan and bring up to heat
Add tomatoes and all the spices and fry to reduce right down to dry paste consistency
Add chicken to pan and coat well
Add remaining 200ml base and reduce to desired consistency
Garnish fresh coriander

It’s been a long time since I made this base, but maybe time for another bash.

Robbo

I hope that helps. If anyone has any reasonable questions or constructive I'm happy to respond.

Thanks a lot for replying, Stephen, and well done on achieving a result you're happy with.

Like livo in the post above, I had a search of the forum for recipes using the Taz base but it seems that they've all been lost; truncated by a forum bug or similar. For example, one of your own posts for Chicken Punjabi Masala is missing most of its content.

Do you have a copy of your recipes stored offline? If so, would you be willing and able to upload them again for us please? You're very welcome to send them to me directly and I can type them up / format them for the forum if that's easier.

I hope we can recover at least some of the lost recipes; it would be such a shame to let them remain lost.

The forum is broken.  I'm reading through Taz Base threads from the search results (34 pages) and any links provided within posts lead to 404 errors.  How sad.

Pictures are missing and Stephen Lindsay's ingredients for the Chicken Jalfrezi are 1 portion of pre-cooked chicken.  Not very useful.

It actually appears that all (or most) recipes posted by SL have been truncated. Several have just chicken and nothing else and others are apparently (possibly) incomplete.