Topic: Marinating chicken prior to pre-cooking????

[Edwin Catflap]

i have tried various methods of pre cooking and whilst ok, cos i dont cook in bulk or with too little time, i have reverted back to raw and generally follow the CA sequence which always works a treat
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[goncalo]

Some thoughts on Julian's recent chicken marinating video: I didn't find the chicken to be any tender than when I just pre-cook it using his book's method. I cooked a curry at 11hours post marinating and one 38 hours post marinating from the same batch. I used 12 chicken breasts with 500gm of plain yogurt, 4 tbsp of garam masala (east end), a few squirts of jiff lemon and 2 tbsp of g&g. I flattened each breast by hand just as Julian does, though I'd say that's only for convenience of cutting it into 6 parts. I precooked using a thinly chopped onion, turmeric, salt, a few green pepper slices, green cardamoms and a tsp of mix powder and 2 tsp of cayene pepper. I thought the difference between this chicken and the one I precooked before was negligible. The meat was less tender than when I do it using blade's tikka. Flavour of garam masala wasn't abundant either. I will continue using the same old method of adding all the spices into the pot and precook without marinating.