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Curry Photos & Videos => Pictures of Your Curries => Topic started by: chinois on February 19, 2010, 12:45 PM
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I used the original Moti Mahal butter chicken (murgh makhani) recipe but used Blade's tikka recipe instead of theirs as his is perfect.
Tikka recipe here: http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=874.0 (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=874.0)
Sauce recipe at the bottom of the photos.
This recipe from Delhi in the 1950's is considered to be the forerunner of CTM. I've heard a lot of conflicting stories about it's origins and claims that it doesnt exist in india or wasnt created there. Well this recipe turns out a CTM in my opinion.
I can't believe i forgot to seek out this restaurant when i was in Delhi last year. I was wondering around old delhi for hours before choosing a restaurant which had cockroaches and flies everywhere and unfiltered water. I deserve a smack around the head for not doing more research!
Yes the name of this dish is different and the taste isnt exactly the same as a BIR but it is clearly the same dish IMO i.e the same original idea. Add more sugar, some coconut powder and some food colouring and it's a BIR CTM. Use reclaimed oil and it'll be better. I'm really happy to have found this recipe as it's quick, easy and requires no base.
Marinade ingredients before mixing. I also added yoghurt so it penetrated the meat more.
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After 24h the chicken was threaded on to steel skewers and cooked under an electric grill on high heat. It cooked quicker than i thought it would, i think because the skewer heats it from the inside too.
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My new skewers dont look like they're very well made. Oh well.
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Tomatoes, tomato puree, washed stalks, water, garlic, ginger, cardamom, cloves, indian bay leaves and salt. Before simmering for about 20 mins.
Note this is double the recipe
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Whole spices and stalks removed (although it didnt specify in the recipe) the mixture was blended and pushed through a sieve.
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Mild chilli powder (i used a mix of deggi mirch, kashmiri and reshampati) and dried methi/fenugreek leaves were added and it was cooked for a few mins to thicken up. Butter was added, along with sugar, MSG, red food colouring, cream and the just-cooked tikka. Fat was not allowed to rise before serving. Powdered garam masala was added at the end.
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Finished dish. It had more sauce, i just didnt flood the bowl so you could see the meat in the photo. Only differences from the moti mahal recipe being more sugar, MSG and food colouring. I didnt use the tikka bit of the recipe as i used blade's but theirs looks good and quite similar. Thanks Unclebuck for the recipe book. It seems like a good'n
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Recipe:
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Dang Chinois look at this! :o
Look at those devils chicken spikes too. Wonderful images pal.
Nice post Chinois.
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Nice work Nic,
and one to try,
Not sure about dishing up into unwashed bowls or was that a second serving? ;)
Mick
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sweet post Chin!!
Think ill have to have a go at this one to with blades tikka recipe,
Thanks for reporting back
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Nice work Nic,
and one to try,
Not sure about dishing up into unwashed bowls or was that a second serving? ;)
Mick
Good point, that was a second serving!
I use my phone as the camera and it's kind of breaking so the initial photos didnt work out. I'd like to use a proper camera as it's a pain in the arse using this to be honest. I have to take a few shots to get one without too much blur!
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Dang Chinois look at this! :o
Look at those devils chicken spikes too. Wonderful images pal.
Nice post Chinois.
Cheers Mikka, i thought the skewers were pretty cool too. They use them at the kurdish restaurants round here. Unfortunately they dont fit sideways into my oven so i have to angle them diagonally. Not much of an issue though.
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none of the photos i uploaded are working anymore. I know that's probably a blessing for some of you but it's a bit of pain for me as i spent time putting this together. Does anyone know what the reason is or if that site's down or something? Hopefully i still have the originals but i was hoping to be able to store them here only.
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none of the photos i uploaded are working anymore. I know that's probably a blessing for some of you but it's a bit of pain for me as i spent time putting this together. Does anyone know what the reason is or if that site's down or something? Hopefully i still have the originals but i was hoping to be able to store them here only.
I think this may be the reason :
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** Phil.