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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:04:39PM +0100, Simon Wistow said: > If this works I regale you with tales of restaurants and stories of Mrs > Bassas Tandoori Chicken. An lo! It did! Sorry about the delay people - the DNS for thegestalt got, umm, broken for several weeks and then I had to migrate the list to Siesta - if you have any problems then please give me a shout - I'll be sticking up a web subscription form soon. As a treat ... Mrs Bassa's Tandoori Chicken This, to be honest, is straight off the back of the pot of Tandoori paste I bought from the incomparable Mrs Bassa at Borough Market. If you haven't already tried her Brinjal Pickle then you really should - it's fantastic and quite unlike the offering from Pataks et al ... http://www.mbik.co.uk/ I got 4 good quality chicken breates, scored them and then stuck them in a bowl with the juice of a lemon and some salt. Then I mixed about a cup (half a large pot) of yoghurt with two generous table spoons of Tandoori paste. I left for about half an hour but over night might have been better. I preheated an oven to 200 degrees C and then laid them breasts out on an oven tray and bake them for 40 minutes. To be honest, they came out a little dry and one side was blacker (more caramelised ;) than the other although that's partly because I forgot to turn them. If I was to do them again I'd do them at a lower heat and maybe for a shorter time. Served with Sainsbury's three colour rice (nice, if a little greasy), Patak's Garlic and Coriander Naan (nice if a little dry), Sainsbury's Mixed Indian starters (not worth it) and Sainsbury's Vegetable Dansak (lovely). I also mixed some of the yoghurt with a couple of tsp of ordinary put-it-on-lamb mint sauce to see what happened and was pleasantly surprised by the results. As an aside, I've had Sainsbury's ready-meal Indians before and always found them excellent - especially the bombay potatos, butter chicken and in particular the Goan Fish Curry. I've heard bad things about their Chinese range though. Simon
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