Topic: Chicken Tikka marinade as done by Ravi Restaurant - Dubai (Pakistani)

[Ghoulie]

Tikka Marinade - ex Ravi chef discussions with an old Dubai expat:

2 Cups plain yoghurt,
2/3 green chillies,
about a golfball size of grated green ginger,
3 large cloves of garlic,
1 and half tsp of salt,
1 teaspoon black cummin,
1 teaspoon red chilli powder,
1 and half teaspoons of garam massala,
a good slug of vinegar, 2
 tablespoons of olive oil,
half a teaspoon each of red and yellow food colour.

Food process and/or beat until really smooth.
This should make about half a pint of marinade.
Use accordingly on lamb or chicken.

[Micky Tikka]

Thank you Ghoulie
Ive Just mixed up some Tandoori mix for tomorow night
I have some yogurt left over I will give a test 

[Ghoulie]

hi michael.t - how did it go?  I tried it last week - it was quite good - but not as hot as the Ravi version / my liking - so when I do this next, I will reduce yogurt by half and double chillies and use more as stronger coating to marinade in before cooking

[Micky Tikka]

Very nice indeed
Must admit I don't really measure so I only used  a few table spoons of yogurt and added some chilli pwd
so mine turned out better than yours  ;D
Seriously it was nice to try a recipe with out using the brought pastes
IT was in a tandoor and finished off with a squeeze of lemon and sprinkling of coriander
 well done

[Ghoulie]

nice to hear it turned out well michael

[Ghoulie]

Here is my uprated version of the Ravi tikka marinade - got one on the go right now for tonight

I amended to :-

1 Cup plain yoghurt,
1 large green fresh chillie,
20 small (1/2?) dried homegrown chillies
about a golfball size of grated green ginger,
3 large cloves of garlic,
1 tablespoon of salt,
1 teaspoon black cummin,
1 teaspoon red chilli powder,
1 and half teaspoons of garam massala,
a good slug of vinegar,
2 tablespoons of olive oil,

no colouring agent

Food process and/or beat until really smooth.
This should make about 1/4 pint of marinade - use as a coating on slashed chicken.
I use this on 4x large chicken breasts (cut into cubes for a skewer kebab style) & 4x wings

BBQ on a charcoal bbq.

[Kylie1969]

Wow, that sounds quite hot with all those chillies in it, sounds good though, thanks for sharing and updating

[Ghoulie]

Not overly hot Kylie - remember - these are quite small home grown (UK) 1/2" chillies that are oven dried when harvested.  The marinade gives a nice spicy zing to the chicken.  I put 25 of my chillies in the last one and whilst my daughter & husband & granddaughter liked it (me too!) - my wife thought it was bit on the 'hot' side for her - so it's back down to 20 on the next one

[jamieob]

Hi,

Interested if you have any of the other Ravi's recipes, butter chicken, kadai etc, or base gravy etc.

Visit Ravi's a lot and be great to be able to make some at home also.

Thanks again for your other Ravi's recipes.

[Ghoulie]

Just to advise since writing this uprated recipe version with my home grown 20x small chillies - the chillies i grew were of the Super chilli variety - about 1/2" long - this variety has a 50,000 Scoville rating - so if you know your chilli scoville rating, you can adjust the numbers accordingly.