Topic: Chicken Tikka Roshney

[Naga]

Hi natterjack, thanks for posting this video - after following the video demos I'm really keen to make a Zaal-style Chicken Roshney.

Can I ask a couple of questions? Was that the red masala sauce you added first, just before the base gravy and, is there a Zaal/Az recipe for the red masala sauce? I have searched for the recipe, but either I can't find it or it hasn't been written down yet.

[natterjak]

Hi naga

That was passata added before the base sauce. You could substitute tomato puree.

Recipe for Zaal red masala sauce is here: http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=8313.0

[Naga]

Hi natterjack, Thanks for posting that info. I had read that recipe, but there seems to have been some confusion over the spoons used in making up the red sauce. One said chef's spoons, the other says tablespoons and the video showed dessertspoons.

As a relative newbie to this style of cookery, it all gets a bit confusing lol!

I noted the order of your ingredients from the video, but I didn't see you add the red sauce. Did you add the red masala paste to the base gravy before you started the dish? Also, there was some mention of a garlic tarka?

Sorry for all the questions!

[natterjak]

Hi naga. I added the masala sauce with the meat, at 2:25 in the video. It's been frozen into a 2tbs ice cube tray then defrosted again so it looks like a little block of sauce. Also I chose to add the garlic at the start of the dish, right after the garlic and ginger paste. I know Az ads his at the end, I've tried both ways and prefer the result when I add it at the beginning.

[Naga]

Superb! Thanks for your patience, natterjack - it's much appreciated. 

[Naga]

I finally got around to cooking this dish for last night's dinner, and it gets a big thumbs up from me from start to finish!

I especially enjoyed the big garlicky hit on the palate and I'm looking forward to Part 2 tonight (because I made double portions!).

Thanks to natterjack and other contributors for bringing this dish to prominence on the forum.

[natterjak]

I think the credit is really down to chriswg, who first reported on it and hunted down details of the recipe from Az. The combination of garlic and a small scoop of red masala sauce does seem to work well indeed

[Naga]

Can't disagree with you there, natterjack. It was chriswg's thread on the subject that perked my interest in the dish. I sent him a PM a few weeks ago requesting the recipe given that his original thread went down the pan due to some unnecessarily pointless remarks.

I imagine that he hasn't been online since as I never received a reply, but your video thread on the subject did the trick. Thanks again to all involved.

[George]

As a relative newbie to this style of cookery, it all gets a bit confusing lol!

Welcome to the forum - 16 posts ago!

Like you, I'm frustrated with the lack of care in terms of how spoon measures are reported. It's nothing to do with the style of cookery though; just the style of the people involved.

It could be a cycling forum, say, and lack of attention to detail would make reports equally misleading and hopeless, like if someone said they cycled 120 miles yesterday but someone else thought it was nearer 60 miles, and yet another person was quite sure it was nearer 30 miles, and yet a discussion took off over how impressive it was to cycle 120 miles in one day.