Topic: Homemade Pataks Tikka Paste

[976bar]

My mouth is watering already.  Do those students appreciate how lucky they are?  It's a trip to far normally but i am on holiday in a weeks time mate.  I'll PM you if my Thurs eve is free and i can venture south of the river  for uni fare

Let me know in advance if you can make it and I will put a couple of personal dishes together for you rather than the bulk dishes produced for all the others

[curryhell]

Now that is an offer I am finding hard to resist mate.  Will be in touch 

[loveitspicy]

I would say there is a bunch of lucky students Bob

great post

best, Rich

[976bar]

I didn't know whether to stick this in the "Bulk" Chicken Tikka Post or the Homemade Pataks Tikka Paste post, so in the end decided to put it in here. If it is the wrong place, then Admin please post this elsewhere as necessary.

I marinaded 15kg Chicken breast "Chopped" in the new Homemade Pataks Tikka Paste to make "Blades" original Chicken Tikka recipe albeit my way and went on to make a CTM for the students today for lunch.

The Chicken Tikka itself, when cooked, was milder than the Pataks paste version, but still gave a wonderfully flavoured Tikka. As this was my first attempt at this paste, I will be working on it to make it a little more, "Pungent" as it were and will try and find time to make the paste either this week or next.

However, here are some pictures of the process between the Tikka coming out of the fridge and the end CTM.

[curryhell]

Now that's what i call a proper portion  : : Not my kind of dish but i can appreciate when it's cooked well and doesn't taste like chicken in a sweet tandoori soup.  Best i ever tasted was at Zammans in Dachet.  Now that was a chicken tikka massala with a difference.  An amazing flavour with minimal sweetness.  It was that tasty and so different from the normal tikka massallas served up that i'd have ordered it as a main 

[976bar]

Hi Dave, this is what I make for the Uni. It is bulk cooking but as close to BIR as you might ever get.

However, when I cook for private dinner parties and small events, the tables turn completely

[Stephen Lindsay]

Really good post and the food looks mouthwatering.

[Achille17]

976bar,

Could you please also post your CTM recipe?

Thanks!!!

[StoneCut]

Awesome project

Some ideas/questions:
Is it possible to just leave the whole tamarind block in there when ground?
Something about the colour: Maybe use more or a darker kind (such as "smoked) Paprika?

I'd love to try this out, will try to sneak it into the wive's food plan for the next week

[Aussie Mick]

Cheers for sharing Bob, i'll definitely give it a go next week.

I tried H4ppy Chris's Kashmiri masala paste this week and I am impressed.

All we need now is a good tandoori paste recipe and it's bye bye to Pataks...lol.

Your food looks bang on mate.