Topic: North Indian Special (vindaloo strength)

[curryhell]

Tikka overload  .  That really looks delicious mate.  I'll have two portions to take away with pilau rice and a brinjal bhaji please  ;D And throw in a peshwari naan while the tandoor's still warm 

[Micky Tikka]

Any poppadoms sir

[Terramamba]

One HELL of a CURRY  ;D

This dish gets better the more I cook it 

[curryhell]

Hi Terramamba.  Good to see you working away with the NIS.  Can you tell me if your pic is a true representation of the finished dish?  From what i'm looking at the chicken doesn't look like chicken tikka but ordinary pre-cookded chicken and the sauce is very dark brown .  Aesthetics maybe, but the look is very different from the pics of your first attempt and different from all the others posted here  . But you obviously enjoyed the taste 

[Terramamba]

Hi Terramamba.  Good to see you working away with the NIS.  Can you tell me if your pic is a true representation of the finished dish?  From what i'm looking at the chicken doesn't look like chicken tikka but ordinary pre-cookded chicken and the sauce is very dark brown .  Aesthetics maybe, but the look is very different from the pics of your first attempt and different from all the others posted here  . But you obviously enjoyed the taste 

Hi Curryhell. Yes, a true representation. Yes, chicken tikka, thighs, cooked whole, then sliced before adding at final stages of cooking. Yes a different look, possibly due to using my heavy cast iron pan, seemed to hold the heat, I timed the various cooking stages too, lots of reduction. Also I didn't have any tomato.

The taste, what can I say - delicious!

[DalPuri]

CH, i had a few pics to choose from and a there was a complete difference with the flash on.

without flash = true and red
with flash = brown

Cheers, Frank 

[curryhell]

Hi Curryhell. Yes, a true representation. Yes, chicken tikka, thighs, cooked whole, then sliced before adding at final stages of cooking. Yes a different look, possibly due to using my heavy cast iron pan, seemed to hold the heat, I timed the various cooking stages too, lots of reduction. Also I didn't have any tomato.

The taste, what can I say - delicious!

Thanks for clarifying T.  The reason I ask is that you made the dish wiht the C2G base as did i when i made my phall on Saturday.  It too turned out a different colour than it normally does.  Like you it got a hell of a lot of reduction but i struggled to get the consistency I like.  By that time it was more brown than orangey red  .  Tasted ok but full report on that later.
Was that no tomato paste  which would make a difference not only to the colour or no fresh tomato?  The later would obviously have very minimal impact on either.

[curryhell]

CH, i had a few pics to choose from and a there was a complete difference with the flash on.

without flash = true and red
with flash = brown

Cheers, Frank 

The flash thing can be very irritating at times DP.  One never knows whether to use it or not.  I too now end up taking a few shots with and without and incorporate natural light when possible to get the best possible pick of the dish and how it really looks.  I  have found that more often the flash makes my dishes look redder than they are.  Weird, but then again i'm certainly no expert when it comes to using a camera :.

[Terramamba]

Hi Curryhell. Yes, a true representation. Yes, chicken tikka, thighs, cooked whole, then sliced before adding at final stages of cooking. Yes a different look, possibly due to using my heavy cast iron pan, seemed to hold the heat, I timed the various cooking stages too, lots of reduction. Also I didn't have any tomato.

The taste, what can I say - delicious!

Thanks for clarifying T.  The reason I ask is that you made the dish wiht the C2G base as did i when i made my phall on Saturday.  It too turned out a different colour than it normally does.  Like you it got a hell of a lot of reduction but i struggled to get the consistency I like.  By that time it was more brown than orangey red  .  Tasted ok but full report on that later.
Was that no tomato paste  which would make a difference not only to the colour or no fresh tomato?  The later would obviously have very minimal impact on either.

Hi CH, only fresh tomato was missing, like you say, minimal impact. As for the consistency, for me, spot on  ;D

My camera was set to auto, so it may well have flashed

[Micky Tikka]

Mine was that colour lots of red tikka with food colouring and tom paste and proably tried to make it too big so not so much reduction still couldnt fault the taste which is the main thing