Quote from: Unclefrank on November 19, 2012, 12:15 PM
Tesco are doing a bottle for 50p at the moment.

I must walk around with my eyes shut lol! Thanks, UF!

Thanks to you both, UF and Axe. I had rather hoped that someone would come up with good advice before my post became irrevocably buried under this relentless mountain of spam we're getting just now.

I will definitely try your suggestions - as I've got 2 portions of the pre-cooked chicken left anyway, I'll be able to use them up in both UF's amended recipe (although I've no Kewra water) and the Jalfrezi.

I'll update the thread to let you know how I get on. Thanks again!

I really fancied trying the Kushi Balti recipes so, being at a loose end yesterday, I made the Kushi base, Kushi pre-cooked chicken and Kushi spice mix and then cooked the Kushi Basic Balti.

I have to be honest and say that, although every ingredient and the cooking method were to spec, I was really disappointed in the end result. I felt that the meal was rather bland and tasted of nothing very much. This opinion was confirmed by my good lady wife.

My problem is that I now have 6 double portions of the base gavy and 2 generous double portions of the pre-cooked chicken in the freezer and I'm certainly not going to throw them out (yes, I am that stereotypical Scotsman lol!). Oh, and half a tub of spice mix - daftie that I am, I made a double quantity.

I may give the dopiaza or the pathia recipes a go to see if I can do better the next time, but otherwise, I fear the spice mix will be binned and the base gravy recycled for something else.

Quote from: mickdabass on November 15, 2012, 01:54 PMBest advice I can give you all is to try my tikka marinade...I'm suprised no one has tried it yet and given me some feedback....

I saw this post on Blade's Chicken Tikka - Better than the BIRs thread. Be surprised no longer, MDB!

With only a few hours notice, I had a last-minute curry to prepare for the family yesterday. Although I have plenty of pre-cooked chicken and (Blade's) chicken tikka in the freezer, I also had 1kg of fresh chicken thighs in the fridge and, as I've been meaning to try your tikka marinade for a while now, that was as good a time as any to give it a go.

I made it to spec, but, given the rush job, I only managed to marinate the chicken pieces for 3 hours instead of the recommended 24 hours. Given that I had taken 2 pieces of meat from each thigh, it was a bit of a faff to thread them onto my 8mm square-section skewers but I got them under the gas grill and gave them 4 minutes on either side at full blast.

I have to say that the chicken was delicious! Although I don't think it's strictly BIR, I will definitely make this marinade again. The flavour of the star anise came shining through despite the short marinading time, but not at all in an unpleasant way. The family made a point of complimenting the quality, taste and texture of the chicken tikka - which, by the way, was accompanying loveitspicy's Chicken Chasni. It went very well with this dish.

Very nice indeed, and I suspect that, fully marinated, it would equally be very nice on it's own as a starter or snack. Nice one, MDB!

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I wouldn't hold my breath...

There's been a couple of threads raised about the issue already, mate, but frankly, there's little to be done about it until a Mod turns up to sort it.

Time to temporarily suspend the membership registration facility and clear this crap out!

Quote from: Secret Santa on November 12, 2012, 01:34 PM...you can easily cook from scratch in minutes....

I prefer chicken...

Can't get the Taj frozen garlic in any of my local ASDAs either. Maybe they just do it down south?