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 ML> If things keep going that way, you will own us!

 GJ> That depends on whether China will agree to sell.

[snork!]

 GJ> As her father is the leading provider of camel meat in the country,
 GJ> Heidi has promised me samples of the full range of his products the
 GJ> next time I go North.

That should be interesting. I have been told it tastes rather
beef-like and that young camel is veal-like but with a sweetness
like horse meat.


 GJ> Yesterday Kevin and I did some experimenting with crocodile meat

An interesting read. Too bad FIDO can't handle pictures.


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     Title: About Chicken Tikka Masala
Categories: Indian, Chicken, Info
  Servings: 4

           Chicken tikka masala

Tikka or Teeka means a piece of meat, such as a cutlet.

The popular dish chicken tikka is made of chicken cutlets in a
marinade. A westernized version, chicken tikka masala, is a widely
popular dish in the United Kingdom.

The marinade used in the preparation of chicken tikka can also be
called tikka. It is made from a mixture of aromatic spices and dahi
(the Indian word for plain yoghurt).

Chicken tikka is a Pakistani/Indian origin dishes made by baking
small pieces of chicken which have been marinated in spices and
yogurt. It is traditionally made on skewers in a tandoor (Indian
clay oven) and is usually boneless. The literal meaning of tikka is
"pieces of chicken".

The Punjabi version, though, is barbecued on red-hot coal and does
not always contain boneless pieces. The pieces are regularly brushed
with ghee (clarified butter), which gives its taste, while being
continuously fanned. It is typically eaten with a green coriander &
tamarind chutney, served with onion rings and lemons or used in a
chicken tikka masala.

A chicken tikka sizzler is a dish where Chicken Tikka is served on a
heated plate and is served with onions. The dish is also known and
eaten in Afghanistan, though the Afghan version (generally like
Persian and Middle Eastern dishes) is less spicy compared to the
Indian version.

Chicken tikka masala is a westernized Indian dish based on baked
chicken chunks (chicken tikka) cooked in a curry sauce. It has been
hailed as "Britain's true national dish" but is popular throughout
the world.

Chicken tikka masala is chicken tikka, chunks of chicken marinated
in spices and yogurt then baked in a tandoor oven, in a masala
("mixture of spices") sauce. There is no standard recipe for chicken
tikka masala; a survey found that of 48 different recipes the only
common ingredient was chicken. The sauce usually includes tomato and
either cream or coconut cream and various spices. The sauce or
chicken pieces (or both) are often coloured orange or red with food
dyes.

Other tikka masala dishes replace chicken with lamb, fish or paneer.

The origins of chicken tikka masala are disputed. At least one
source has the dish originating in New Delhi in 1947, but it also
has been suggested that chicken tikka masala originated from the
kitchens of Bangladeshi chefs in the UK, with many restaurants
throughout the country claiming to have invented it. The recipe's
age is also unproven, with claims ranging from the 1970s back to the
1950s.

A widely reported explanation of the origins of the dish is that it
was conceived in Glasgow in the late 1960s, when a customer, who
found the traditional chicken tikka too dry, asked for some gravy.
The chef improvised a sauce from tomato soup, yogurt and spices.

Another theory is that it originated in British India to adapt local
dishes to the British palate. A prototype may be Murgh Makhni
(butter chicken), a dish from the Punjab region of India.

Chicken tikka masala is now served in restaurants around the globe,
and a UK survey claimed it is the country's most popular restaurant
dish. One in seven curries sold in the UK is a chicken tikka.


See also:

General Tso's chicken, another syncretic dish seen as symbolic of
its cuisine.

(Syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or
contradictory beliefs, often while melding practices of various
schools of thought. The term may refer to attempts to merge and
analogize several originally discrete traditions.)

And Curry chicken, similar type of chicken and spice dish.

Like Spaghetti and meatballs, a never-heard-of dish in Italy, yet
eaten prepared and served in many self-styled "Italian" restaurants
in North America.

From: Wikipedia
 
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Cheers

YK Jim


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