Chicken Tikka Masala Kebabs!

[Malc.]

During the week I had ordered a few take away's and had some left overs which I had kept to do a little experiment with. Whilst I did have some main and side dishes left, these were consigned to a foil tray and frozen for another day. But the fridge received several small polystyrene pots of mint sauce, 1 mango chutney and crucially, 1 pot of coconut chutney.

Now the coconut chutney is the thick dry red masala paste that is used by the Shanaz to make the Tikka Masala gravy. A spoon of this stuff on a popadum does wonders after a few pints, give it a try

Anyway, best laid plans were thwarted when we decided in last minute fashion to have chicken kebabs. So rather than resort to my normal shish recipe, I thought i'd try a go at using the left over chutneys. With this I mixed equal amounts of the mint sauce and the coconut chutney and tasted it, it wasn't too bad missed that curry tone. So I opted to then add an equal amount of the IG spice mix, bingo!

So I then set about mixing up enough to marinade 3 fat chicken breasts that had been cut into tikka sized pieces. I added just a little Mustard Oil and small squeeze of lemon and mixed everything together and let the chicken marinade. 

Oven was set to 250c and the now skewered chicken was cooked in the oven for 20 mins.

Result, wow what a fantastic conclusion to the test. The flavour of the tikka was pretty close to the mark and so to was the colour. I shall certainly be doing it again if I have left over chutneys. I urge those that can, to give it a go, at least just to see the results for yourselves. If you cant get the thick masala paste from your local, check out the following topic http://cr0.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=7860.0

Cheers,
Malc

[Malc.]

50 views and not one reply, i'm dismayed

[curryhell]

This one slipped under my radar.  Sounds good.  Shame there are no pics to compliment it .  When i eventually get round to making the Zaal Masala paste, i'll give it a go

[Malc.]

Thanks for the response CH, I did take some photo's but they didn't come out too well. We seem to have a camera epidemic in the house as both the decent cameras I have, are not working for some reason. So pic's were taken with the wife's phone which were quite poor. Any way, here is a pic of the tikka prior to cooking.

[976bar]

Hi Malc,

Sorry mate, have been so busy with the Olympics I am shattered right now and haven't hardly been on here. I like the idea of this as all I ever make is sheik kebabs or thai peanut chicken kebabs etc, so to try something unusual will be nice

I have to say, I haven't tasted the masala paste before, so will be good to knock up a batch and give it a go, as soon I get the time. Working flat out at the moment.

Well done mate