Wednesday, April 15, 2015

chicken tikka masala

Ok I was not a fan.  Not that anything was really bad just there were problems with every component.  I ended up adding rice because the suace was really spicy and needed something to break it up (and I was not a fan of the nan). 

What I liked - The chicken was really tender and there was a lot of flavor in the sauce.

What I didn't like - The sauce was too spicy.   Normally I like extra suace here I was trying to get mostly just the chicken on the plate with a minimum of sauce.  The spinach was just boring, couldn't they have added some extra garlic in there to give it a little extra something.  The nan wasn't good.  In a pinch I would eat it and probably would have had I not had some rice in my freezer to heat up quick to go with the dinner. 

My modifications - I marinated the chicken in the yogurt for a couple hours in the fridge before cooking.  I made rice.  I put some butter on the spinach just to give it some more flavor (probably some garlic salt would have been good too but I didn't think of it at the time).  I had to broild the chicken a couple minutes longer then directed (still a little pink the first time I pulled it out of the oven). 

I really wish they would make spicy food more to taste, meaning label the spicy ingredient and say use to taste or something.  I have made indian food before and used grahm masala and never had it been this spicy (granted I am not biggest spicy fan, so maybe if you like things medium spicy this would have been fine). 

2 stars (I guess I will still get my favorite indian take out still) 

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