{"id":1118,"date":"2008-06-06T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T19:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2008-06-06T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T19:25:33","slug":"chicken_tikka_masala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Tikka Masala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I5813.JPG\" alt=\"Chicken Tikka Masala\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAdam made Chicken Tikka Masala recently and he provided recopies <a href=\"http:\/\/rupes.livejournal.com\/54213.html#cutid1\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/rupes.livejournal.com\/53788.html#cutid1\">here<\/a>.  This inspired me to make my own batch!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCooking the Chicken Tikka was somewhat difficult using a gas oven.  And rather wasteful during Summer.  The pan underneath the burners didn&#8217;t really have a good rack.  So I didn&#8217;t use one.  But the heaping amount of yogurt sauce that I used made a mess as it sat under the chicken resting in the pan.  Next time, I will definitely use a cookie rack to get the chicken up off the ground, so to speak.  And I will also pound the chicken into an even thickness.  The natural breast is just too thick at one end and too thin at the other.  It doesn&#8217;t lead to even cooking.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso, I should have use the Highlight Tone Priority feature of my Canon camera.  That rice is rather hard to not lose detail in the picture.  I used two large lowel lights at both ends with a white reflector at the rear.  And I also used a naked flash unit on the camera for some highlights.  But I probably should have diffused it somewhat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith all of those minor nibbles aside, the food tasted good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam made Chicken Tikka Masala recently and he provided recopies here and here. This inspired me to make my own batch! Cooking the Chicken Tikka was somewhat difficult using a gas oven. And rather wasteful during Summer. The pan underneath the burners didn&#8217;t really have a good rack. So I didn&#8217;t use one. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}