Topic: Chicken tikka botti paste tester

[Kashmiri Bob]

Getting quite excited about this paste.  Marinade consists of G/G paste, the botti paste, yoghurt, lemon juice squirt, mustard/sunflower oil, and a bit of grated nutmeg.  That's it. No salt, additional food colouring, or anything else.  Tasted spot on, for me.





Tester sample after 6 hr marinade, grilled. 





Already thinking better than Blades, better than everything to be honest.  Should add I'm not a fan of typical Bangladeshi BIR tikka.  Find it incredibly bland as a starter.  Pakistani tikka and tandoori cooking in general, however, I love.  This is so close.  Couple of tweaks including a tad more colour and it should be job done, to my satisfaction anyway.

Rob 


I believe the botti bit actually relates to off the bone dark meat.

[gazman1976]

Hi Rob, where did you buy it from?

Garry

[icemanfrosty]

http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Laziza-Tikka-Botti-Paste.html
I get most my spices from here good price and free delivery if you spend over

[Kashmiri Bob]

Local Pakistani supermarket.

[Garp]

That looks a treat, Rob, and you have confirmed the taste is good. Might have to splash out on a jar

[natterjak]

Good prices? Are you kidding... They're horrifically expensive compared to an Asian supermarket.

[Kashmiri Bob]

That looks a treat, Rob, and you have confirmed the taste is good. Might have to splash out on a jar

So far so good Garp.  Stands up by itself for sure, but I'll need to put it though its paces; planning a chicken tikka botti shashlik, to see how the flavours balance out with plenty fresh garlic/chilli; sizzler.  Fingers crossed.

Rob 

[indianwells]

Rob, that looks absolutely spectacular and just by looking at it I can tell it will taste heavenly!

[Aussie Mick]

I tried this yesterday after a 24 hour marinade. Very, very nice indeed.

A fair bit hotter than Blades tikka. I would cook this to slap on a naan with salad and mint sauce, and for my own curry dishes, but use blades for a CTM, as it would make a CTM too hot for most people IMHO.

Thanks for sharing Bob.

[gazman1976]

bought 2 jars today, chicken is out the freezer and will be marinading tonight when I get home