Chicken/pork Tika,tandoori ,byriani Shish Kebabs , How Please ?

[beezaneez]

i just recently tried these in thailand, delicious and very healthy. i want to start making them at hom, i have an asian market near me and i would like to know some good way of cooking them with mushrooms, pinapple,peppers,onlions etc etc.

i can buy nice cheap chicken fillets so i need to know, will i use prkats sauces in jar ( i think not ) or do i buy original tikka/ tandoori powder mix then leave to marinade overnight.

i want these to be my favourite dish so want to get them right. any adieas welcome .

thanks

[EcclesCake]

I'm a bit confused what recipes you are after. Is it:-

A tikka recipe for chicken or pork;
A biryani recipe;
A shish kebab recipe?

Why do you object to using Patak's pastes but are happy to use a commercial spice mix?

Do you have a range of spices in your kitchen cupboard already?

[maggiebee]

Maybe when you go into the Asian market you could ask for recipes. Sure they use authentic ones and don't buy "ready mixed" powders or pastes.

[beezaneez]

well the simple answer to that ecckles is that i have been told before never to use pataks paste but use real original spices, though i dont know. as i say, i want to make pork and chicken shish kebabs, not mixed just a pork or chicken kebab.

so what way do i make them using powdered spices please

[beezaneez]

also maggie thanks for your reply but asian supermarket only sell products they will not have recipes etc

[EcclesCake]

Beez, I'm still confused, can you please clarify which recipes you want?

Chicken OR pork tikka;
Biryani;
Shish kebab?

So you are happy to use a commercial spice mix? But, do you have a spices already in your kitchen cupboard, which would enable to make recipes from scratch?

[beezaneez]

i do not know, i want to know what would go with the pork ? what would go with the chicken ? i looked at youtube and paste is ok to use so i will be fine with that.

i like all indian flavours so im easy thanks

[EcclesCake]

I am trying to help but as I still don't know which recipes you want to cook and if you have any spices to hand already so that you can cook from scratch rather than relying on commercial spice mixes.

As they say on Dragon's Den.....I'm out!

I hope you find something that resembles what you had in Thailand.

[beezaneez]

im out ? well you took that bad. OMG !!! i ask for recipes, either chicken or pork, which sauce goes better with which meat etc etc. why on gods earth is that so hard to fathom.

oh well , back to youtube even if it does have only a limited amount of recipes. thanks anyway eccles

[diddlydo]

Beezaneez - you are being very unfair on and rude to Ecclescake who was doing her best to elicit what you were actually asking for. I'm sorry but there's no point in asking for sauces for different meats plus other random ingredients from different cultures and expecting anyone to come up with sensible answers. And, by the way, please don't buy "cheap chicken fillets" because they'll be from chickens which have had no idea what animal welfare is about.

[Tilly2]

You should start off with one thing at a time. The food you had in Tailand will be nothing like tandoori or biryani or kebabs.
Find a recipe for Thai Green curry and follow that.

[Tilly2]

^Thailand.

[EcclesCake]

Beez, it is difficult to fathom because you are asking for three distinct recipes! A biryani is as far away from a kebab as you could possible get!

Tilly and Scrivens, you can get Indian, Italian and Chinese food etc in Thailand much the same as you can here.....he may well have eaten whatever it was in an Indian restaurant out there.

[beezaneez]

ok sorry if i was bit rash eccles. just wanted to know if i could make shish kebabs with biryani sauce. went today and bought bottle of tikka paste. will see how it goes, maybe add some yogurt and chopped corinder leaves and try it. seen these on a street kart in bangkok, they were out of this world, a thai girl was selling them and they were selling like mad. there were pork kebabs there too i noticed but i got chicken tikka ones with pinapple and onions on them.

[EcclesCake]

Definitely mix the spice paste with yogurt.

If using pork leave to marinate for longer so that the yogurt helps tenderise the meat, a squeeze of lemon won't go a miss and will help this process.

[Buenchico]

Firstly, it's worth remembering that pork isn't eaten (on religious grounds) in many parts of Asia, so you'll find fewer recipes involving pork than using other meats.

However the BBC Good Food website is an excellent source of all types of recipes, so that might well be a good starting point for you:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes
(One of the great things about that website is that it includes reviews of the recipes, so you can see what others think of them).

For example, here's the collection of Thai recipes on that site:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/thai
(that's the first of 2 pages)
and here's what a search for 'Tandoori chicken' finds:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/recipes?query=tandoori+chicken

[bronashian]

Hi there beezaneez. Try thecurrysecret.co.uk This gives you the basic curry recipe for any curry then tells you what to add for the curry you want. Hope this helps