Hi, Ray here again.
I haven’t eaten chicken tikka for over 10 years. Now that’s quite an admission for somebody from the UK where chicken tikka is such a popular dish.
I saw the Chicken Tikka recipe on the Curry Focus website and decided to rejoin the chicken tikka eaters.
Now this is an amazingly simple recipe to make. For the preparation, all you have to do is cut up the chicken, mix it up with the yogurt and the spices and then let it marinate in the fridge for two hours.
I put the chicken mixture into the fridge on Sunday morning, covered with lithcen film, and so it had plenty of time to marinate.
I heated up the broiler (grill) as the dinner guests arrived and started the cooking.
I started to microwave the rice about half way through cooking the chicken.
After 25 minutes everything was cooked and I served up the chicken tikka to the dinner guests.
The resultant meal was not very good. It was very bland with a taste of lemon, and not much else. The pieces of chicken were a lot smaller than I remember from my previous meals of chicken tikka.
The assembled diners only gave the chicken tikka an average taste rating of 5.5 out of 10 for taste with a spice/heat rating of very mild.
I will make chicken tikka again in the future but not from this recipe. Disappointing.