Topic: Chicken Tikka - better than the BIRs

[Peripatetic Phil]

Tandoori Chicken

http://fxcuisine.com/default.asp?language=2&Display=10&resolution=print

Thanks, Micky.  By sheer co-incidence, I had just added that hyperlink to the topic/message in which that recipe was first mentioned !  Recommended text now on order ...

** Phil.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Recommended text now on order ...

... and has been delivered.  What a book it is !  Hard-bound, beautifully illustrated, it combines historical, technological and culinary narratives in a single volume. The book was conceived by the late Ranjit Rai, who sadly passed away before it was ready to go to press.  His daughter, Anuradha Ravindranath, willingly took up the yoke and finished the book "as a loving tribute to a wonderful father, a great human being, and a magical cook".  The illustration facing these words is of a man whose very appearance and setting testify to his humility

[mickyp]

Already got it dear chap, its where the tandoori chicken recipe came from on the link, love the photo's of the tandoors being made.

[Peripatetic Phil]

And his earlier Curry, curry, curry

[mickyp]

And his earlier Curry, curry, curry

[livo]

Already got it dear chap, its where the tandoori chicken recipe came from on the link, love the photo's of the tandoors being made.

Ditto.  I purchased it when I bought my Tandoor.  I'm yet to try the whole Tandoori Chicken.  I did buy a couple of smaller birds one time but they were used for a standard roast. I've now put it on the isolation to-do list.

[mickyp]

Even the thought of a whole bird hanging in the tandoor makes my mouth water, it

[tempest63]

This book was on my top ten thatI posted way back in 2007.
https://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=1862.msg16112#msg16112

[Peripatetic Phil]

What would your list be today, T63, with the benefit of a further 13 years' experience ?

Can you name a quality Indian cookbook or two?

For me it has to be:

• 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi (even with the errors)
• Indian Cookery by Madhur Jaffrey
• Classic Indian Cookery by Julie Sahni
• A Taste Of Punjab by Lali Nayar
• Tandoor by Ranjit Rai (especially with the BBQ season upon us)
• Indian Cookery, A Practical Guide by Dharamjit Singh

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** Phil.

[tempest63]

What would your list be today, T63, with the benefit of a further 13 years' experience ?

Can you name a quality Indian cookbook or two?

For me it has to be:

• 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi (even with the errors)
• Indian Cookery by Madhur Jaffrey
• Classic Indian Cookery by Julie Sahni
• A Taste Of Punjab by Lali Nayar
• Tandoor by Ranjit Rai (especially with the BBQ season upon us)
• Indian Cookery, A Practical Guide by Dharamjit Singh

(Slightly re-formatted to make it more legible as an embedded quotation).

** Phil.

That is a searching question. Of the books I first named only the Maddhur Jeffrey still gets extensively used. I have my original BBC paperback that is now tattered, torn and stained and that goes into the kitchen with me. A clean copy of the same book resides on the shelf, picked up seemingly unused in an oxfam shop, and I have the large glossy format with pictures released by the BBC a few years back for perusing in an armchair.
Recently I have worked through a lot of Vivek Singhs book as well as some of the more recent authors and my Indian Cookbook collection consists of 130 plus books.

I think that the above list were the special books that I really relied on back in the day but, nowadays, I have certain recipes in a number of cookbooks to fall back on depending on who is around and what is available.

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