Topic: CA's Simple Chicken Tikka Masala

[m0rq]

Phil,

thank you very much indeed. Yes, my first-class education in English included all the best, like Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Classic British Rock, NWOBHM, and all that fine stuff. Much much more than what they teach in school here, lol.

Cheers!

[LouP]

Best ever education then! Will try this recipe as my daughter will only eat CTM or no curry at all ?

[Madrasandy]

... my daughter will only eat CTM or no curry at all ?

Would be no good in my house then 

[LouP]

[Would be no good in my house then  ]

Mine either, I have never made one, lol .....Such a bad mother  :

[Garp]

New Wave of British Heavy Metal.....haven't heard that for a while. Good stuff though, Morq.

Don't listen to those who will tell you 'if it doesn't burn your mouth, it isn't worth making'. In fact, the opposite is true......if, after a few mouthfuls, your mouth is burning, then you can't taste anything after that; so you can't appreciate the subtle flavours that are involved in Indian cuisine.

To quote Andy

After eating the reaper on Friday I cannot recall how hot this curry actually was, the heat from the reaper was far hotter than anything I have ever tried thus masking the heat from the curry, I wish I had saved some curry now.

If you don't know how hot it is, then you don't know how it tastes, generally.

[Madrasandy]

 

After eating the reaper on Friday I cannot recall how hot this curry actually was, the heat from the reaper was far hotter than anything I have ever tried thus masking the heat from the curry, I wish I had saved some curry now.

My Garp McKorma ,I could taste everything in the curry , I just could not tell how hot it was because I had eaten a fresh reaper chilli ,anything I ate after that was never going to be as hot as the hottest chilli in the world 
Your taste buds adapt as your heat tolerance builds, when I first started eating curries I could not eat a Madras, it would burn my mouth so much that I didnt enjoy it, but as I got used to the chilli heat/burn my tolerance grew, as did my love of hotter food 

[Gav Iscon]

Don't listen to those who will tell you 'if it doesn't burn your mouth, it isn't worth making'. In fact, the opposite is true......if, after a few mouthfuls, your mouth is burning, then you can't taste anything after that; so you can't appreciate the subtle flavours that are involved in Indian cuisine.

If you don't know how hot it is, then you don't know how it tastes, generally.

I'm sort of partially in agreement with Andy as when I was younger (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away), me and the missus spent about a year 'ramping up' our curries till a vindaloo was the normal order. Now we've slipped back down the temperature scale but after eating an 'approaching the limit' curry I do enjoy the radiant feel i get afterwards, like a comforting glow inside. Reminds me of this classic from Not The Nine o' Clock News,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk0WzCtF0yY

And I've always enjoyed the CA curries I've done in the past but I did this last year for my daughter and her boyfriend and I was very disappointed in it. CTM though is not a curry for me.

[Kashmiri Bob]

I've ordered a selection of fresh super chillies from Foo King Hot.  Hottest fresh for me so far has been naga from local supermarkets.  Very fiery and tasty, but the dried Ghost/Scorpion Butch-T flake I got from the Birmingham Chilli fest a while back was/is truly frightening, imo.  Interested to see how the fresh compares.  I like fruity.

Rob 

http://www.fookinghot.com/
   

[Gav Iscon]

http://www.fookinghot.com/
   

Flatliner Sauce, it just doesn't bear thinking about.

[Madrasandy]

They are fruity Rob, like a very intense chocolate habanero . Did you order the moruga scorpion? I looked on that site but they are out of stock on the Reapers.

I have just ordered from a local farm (yorkshirechillies.co.uk) -
1xNaga Viper ,
1x7 pot Brainstrain,
1x Moruga Scorpion,
1x Nagalah
1x Sr strain
2xCarolina Reaper

...but after eating an 'approaching the limit' curry I do enjoy the radiant feel i get afterwards, like a comforting glow inside.

Gav the hotter the chilli the more intense this feeling becomes, it makes the pain of the chilli heat worthwhile