What is the difference between chicken tandoori and chicken tikka?
They taste pretty much identical to me. Besides the fact that the chicken tikka is boneless, what are the differences if any?
they use similar spices, and in some ‘restaurants’, probably the same.
Tandoori chicken is a whole chicken, marinaded overnight, cooked on a spit in a tandoor oven. Chicken tikka is bits of chicken, coated in yoghurt and spices (and sometimes besan flour) and cooked in a tandoor. Both should have spices, garlic and ginger in a full fat yoghurt base, with finely chopped coriander leaf.
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November 16th, 2009 at 7:01 am
One of them is sweeter
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November 16th, 2009 at 7:13 am
That’s it. tandoori tastes better to me. Difference is just what you said – boneless.
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November 16th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Tandoori chicken is mainly based on the flavors lemon and chili while chicken tikka is based on yoghurt and cilantro.
If these tasted the same to you, you probably haven’t had the real thing. I have never had good chicken tikka nor tandoori chicken that tasted quite right outside of India.
Indian restaurants in the USA do not usually make very good Indian food and they use the same masala base in most of their dishes so that’s why they taste the same.
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November 16th, 2009 at 8:32 am
they use similar spices, and in some ‘restaurants’, probably the same.
Tandoori chicken is a whole chicken, marinaded overnight, cooked on a spit in a tandoor oven. Chicken tikka is bits of chicken, coated in yoghurt and spices (and sometimes besan flour) and cooked in a tandoor. Both should have spices, garlic and ginger in a full fat yoghurt base, with finely chopped coriander leaf.
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40 years of cooking tandoori chicken.