Topic: Lasan chicken tandoori (from the F-Word)

[JerryM]

it is very much each to his own both on taste and cost for sure.

a local Indian restaurant has the best chicken i've ever tasted - they buy it direct from a farm and in a curry serve it plain. without doubt the best quality meat u can buy. pure white meat.

i'm convinced too why steak in good restaurants taste miles better than u're v.best efforts at home - the quality of the meat.

having said all of that - long live the farm foods frozen for us - best in vfm class

[JerryM]

2nd test is done. CA's was clear fav. it also looked the part.

the test recipe was surprisingly close given much less ingredient is used.

i am now convinced the step change of the lasan is primarily down to the use of lime juice. well done to Mikka for pointing this out a while ago.

both CA and the test did not have any black salt. i think this adds very little benefit.

the test had mustard oil whereas CA's did not. i still think mustard oil adds something extra and will adopt as std - down to a taste in the test that was not in the CA and could not be down to the other differences in ingredient.

i do think white pepper adds a further dimension and intend to add this in too.

i'm probably also sold on the fennel and intend to experiment over time with the spices.

these sort of "extra" intent on my part ie mustard oil, pepper and fennel are quite picky and not essential. it's the lime juice that makes the step change.

[peterandjen]

This has to be the nicest recipe i've used here or anwhere.
Everytime i make a curry now im knocking this stuff up for it
I just finished a Tandoori Chicken Balti madras and the missus and i loved it.(well she did complain about the chilli but that isnt my fault its the chillies that are hot not me)
Wicked recipe.

[peterandjen]

Spent a couple of hours yesterday knocking up 4 bags/16 chicken thighs of this tandoori recipe ready for freezing this afternoon, from now on all i have to do is defrost and cook a bag full and thats mine and the missus's curry half done

[gazman1976]

made this recipe twice now , both done on the BBQ , chicken drumsticks , lovely !!!

[Razor]

Have any of you guys tried Blades Chicken Tikka recipe? if so, how does this compare?

Ray

[gazman1976]

i have tried it and i think this one is better , i am going to try the new recipe on here that was posted recently for chicken tikka , looks lovely but the lasan one is tops

[Willyeckerslike]

Hi,
I have been wanting to try this for a while now but couldn't find any mustard oil.
I finally found some "mustard oil" in a chinese supermarket, but it is a mustard oil & rapeseed oil mixture.  Will this be ok to use?  It is called Mustarda.  I dont remember what quantity of each is in the bottle.

cheers

Will

[Secret Santa]

Willy in traditional Indian cooking the mustard oil is tempered by heating to smoking point and then letting it cool a bit before use, this takes the edge off it.

If you don't want to do that then the alternative is to mix the mustard oil with a vegetable oil and use as normal. They've done the job for you here, so it's ideal to use.

[Willyeckerslike]

Hi Santa

thanks for that,  I will get some tomorrow

cheers

Will