Topic: CA's Chicken Madras

[Paul1980]

I made this last nice and it was a great Madras exactly the same colour and texture as the picture. This took me only about 8-10 mins to cook with raw chicken which was a bonus. All round a good quick simple Madras recipe nice one!

[timeless]

Made this madras tonight thought it was good just lacked a little something not sure what though don't think i added enough oil

[976bar]

Hi Timeless,

Did you use raw fresh chicken or pre-cooked chicken? It can taste a little bland if only using raw chicken and you then need to up the spices a bit.

I always use a good 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice in my madras, it really brings the flavour of the chilli out

[Cory Ander]

Hi Timeless,

When you say "it lacked something", do you mean in taste, texture or something else?

Please would you confirm if you used my curry base and if you deviated from either recipe?

In particular, please would you confirm:

-  if you used my curry base recipe, did you use my curry masala/spice mix?
-  did you change, add or omit anything?
-  did your resultant curry base look like my photos?
-  if you didn't use my curry base, which did you use?

-  did you change, add or omit anything from the madras recipe?
-  did you use my curry masala/spice mix?
-  did you use my tandoori masala?
-  did you use spiced oil?  If so, from where did you get it from?

-  in both cases, which curry powder (or paste) did you use?
-  were your spices fresh?

Sorry for all the questions, but I feel it's important to know if you've made the recipes to spec. or not? 

We will be in a better position to help you if you could confirm the above.....

[timeless]

Yes I used every thing by your recipes i cooked the chicken there and then only thing i can think of is i think i missed the odd spoonful here and there on the spice mix and yes i think i could of done with a bit more lemon everything was newly bought .

As with everything practice makes perfect will try again soon. ;D

[Cory Ander]

only thing i can think of is i think i missed the odd spoonful here and there on the spice mix

Well that wouldn't help! 

Other than that (assuming you don't miss the odd spoonful on the masala/spice mix), try adding a little more masala/spice mix, curry powder, or a little (e.g. a teaspoon of) commercial madras curry paste (e.g. Pataks, Sharwoods, Ferns, etc)

It would help if you could try and identify what you feel is "missing" though?

[Paul1980]

I have made this loads of times as it's easy and quick to make. It was lacking something and was slightly bland to other recipes I have tried on here. I always add a tsp of Pataks madras paste this seems to give it that extra something. Give it a try.

[Vindaloo-crazy]

This was the canine testiculata. It's adaptable and you can make loads of different curries from it. I use the dipuraja precooked chicken with it and it's spot on. Just make sure the curry stays long enough on the hob for the oil to seperate.

[timeless]

Tried it again last night this time i marinated the chicken in a tikka mix and the leftover tikka mix i added to my base this was alot better

[Cory Ander]

This was the canine testiculata

Glad you like it VC