Curry: Tikka, Korma, Madras

[Afterlife]

Looking for Low Carb recipes for these. I know rice is a no no, but i just want the sauce.

Ive looked at ingredients for pataks pastes and they all have corn starch or some other non allowed ingredient, most of them even have sugar...

So im looking for sauce ingredients for Tikka Masala, Korma, and Madras.

if possible induction friendly, if not no biggie as long as its not like 6+ carbs per serving!

Thanks! Any recipes would be fine ill modify what I can.

[NulloModo]

Curry blends can come from any of your favorite spices, search the internet for recipes, play around with what you have, go to an Indian grocery and buy some spices you have never tried, and simply omit sugar and starch. Letting things slow simmer can thicken sauces and allow the starch to be left out with no detrimental results.

[pammie]

I make my curries by substituting just a bit of soy flour for the starch (for induction you could do it Nullo's way but personally I don't think you get as rich a flavor that way)

also, an unsweetned flax pancake works great for scooping up curries!

[Afterlife]

Cant I use Xanthan Gum to thicken it? Or is soy flour a better substitute?

And I dont know how to make the curries, I usually just use the paste to make, or the pre-made suauces. But all my premade suaces all have sugar and corn starch

So im looking for tried and true Tika, Madras, and Korma Recipes... thanks!

[2big4mysize]

found this for you

Chicken Tikka Masala? Tikkas are the bite-sized chunks you cut chicken into and these are marinated and cooked in the tandoor. The masala part is where things become difficult. Masala means spices but no exact recipe for these seems to exist. CTM can be yellow, red, brownish or even green and can be very creamy, a little creamy, chilli hot or quite mild. In restaurants it tends to be a creamy sauce - not too hot; a bit tomatoey; very smooth and, all too often, quite sweet and very red.
Mridula Baljekar is one of the few cookery writers to have included CTM in her bestselling ‘Complete Indian Cookbook’ (1993) including food colouring and tomato puree as well as double cream and almonds. Chef Mohammed Moneer introduces yet another ingredient with half a cup of coconut milk instead of cream.

It seems that the ingredients generally include yoghurt, tomatoes, cream and spices as well as the chicken pieces and if you have found a version that suits you then stick to it. The Spice n Easy article in 1993 endeavoured to produce the definitive recipe from forty eight versions on offer and came up with a ‘standard’ version.

what color is your gravy and what is in the kind you like? you can get the tandoor in a grocery stoor selling indian spices i have a jar of it for Tandoor chicken and it is low carb.
here is a recipe Naja or nullo Moundo might be able to fix it up for you. This version ain't low carb
CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA Category: Poultry
Prep Time- 500 Minutes Description- Straight from India
Serves 2
250 gms Curd
5 tsp Garam Masala powder
10 tbs Mustard Oil
125 gms Ginger / garlic paste
10 tsp Red chilly paste
5 tsp Cumin powder
5 tsp Coriander powder
5 tsp Black salt
1,000 gms Cooked chicken tikka cubes
200 gms Chopped Onion
200 gms White Butter
50 gms Ginger Paste
50 gms Garlic Paste
10 gms Cumin Powder
10 gms Red Chili Paste
10 gms Coriander powder
10 gms Garam masala
100 ml Tomato ketchup
200 ml Tomato puree
50 gms Cashewnut paste
100 ml Fresh cream
5 gms dry fenugreek leaves
Nutritional Data
Vegetarian- No


Instructions:
1.Marinate the chicken cubes in the in the mixture of the above ingredients up to and including the black salt, for at least for 6 to 8 hours (Important).
Add Salt to taste

2.Grill this chicken cubes on skewers over a charcoal grill(must) in India we use tandoori oven for grilling.
it gives the smoke flavour.

3. the chicken cubes must me not fully cooked, should be juicy.


Chicken Tikka Masala
1. Sauté the onion in the white butter till it become light golden brown.

2. then add all the dry powder and mix it well ,add ginger garlic paste cook it for some time.

3. Add chili paste mix it thoroughly, then cashewnut paste , tomato puree and tomato ketchup. Cook over a small fire and keep stirring till it become a solid consistency.

4.Add chicken tikka cubes mix it well .then add garam masala powder and salt. Let it cook for some time ,keep stirring to avoid sticking at the bottom but gently.
5. Finally finish it with cream before removing from fire just add the crushed fenugreek leaves

happy low carbing

[2big4mysize]

you could use sour cream to make this Atkins friendlier It isn't for induction
Chicken Korma
Ingredients:

2 kg of chicken pieces
500 gms sour yoghurt
100 gms dessicated coconut
1 kg onion
2 tsp garam masala powder (clove, cinnamon, cardamom and shajeera)
1/2 tsp pepper powder
100 gms ginger-garlic paste
50 gms green chillies
1tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp coriander powder
300 gms cooking oil
1 cup water
A sprig each of coriander and spear mint
Salt to taste
Method:

Chop the onions into fine slices and fry them till golden brown. Marinate the chicken pieces for 10 minutes in 2 tsp of salt (salt to taste) turmeric powder, garam masala, coriander powder and ginger-garlic paste. Put the marinated chicken pieces when the onion is fried. After 10 minutes add the whipped yogurt and a cup of water and stir well. Cook for 5 minutes. Then add desiccated coconut, pepper powder, chopped coriander and mint leaves. Cover and allow it to cook for 15 minutes. Serve hot with roti or rice.

The above quantity is to serve a minimum of 8 persons.

[Afterlife]

OK i found a chicken tandoori reciple that sounds awesome.

Tandoori Chicken
* 2lb Chicken
* 2 tbsp lemon or lime juice
* 1 tsp salt

Marinade
* 1/2 cup yoghurt
* 2 cloves of garlic
* 1 tsp salt
* 1 tsp Paprika
* 1 tsp coriander ground
* 1 tsp grounded cuminn ground
* 1/2 t chili-pepper (to make it hot)
* 1 tsp ground ginger
* 1/4 tsp food coloring powder
* 5 Tb oil
* 1 tsp salt

Preparing

- Cut each chicken into pieces according to how you want it and slash with short gashes. Rub in the lime or lemon juice and salt, and let sit for 30mins.

- Mix all marinade ingredients, in a blender or by hand.

- Rub the marinade paste into the chicken, either by brush or by hand.

- Leave to sit over night (12 hours+)

- Put the chicken pieces in a roasting pan and bake for about 25 to 30 minutes at 450-475 F.

- Alternativly this can be BBQ'ed, just simply place pieces on BBQ and cook until ready.

Voila Chicken Tandoori.

Ok so I wrote up the steps and fixed the ingredients up a lil with a real indian cookbook. Sadly I dont know which ingredients are ok, and which arnt, or if they are induction friendly or their respective carb contents, if someone could help me perfect this recipe I think Ill give it a go tonight. Thanks!

If anyone knows of any substitues I can make to lower the carb content or maybe some spices im missing or whatever, please let me know!

[2big4mysize]

what rung are you on? you can sub sourcream for the yogurt I do it all the time. I use http://recipecal.com/ to calculate my recipoes it is a free online site. It won't do any frankenfood stuff be real stuff it has.

Happy low carbing.

Comne back and post the carbps for your recipe when you find out cause all spices have carbs just not a lot of the small amount you eat.

[Afterlife]

Tandoori Chicken
* 2lb Chicken
* 2 tbsp lemon or lime juice (1c p/tbsp)
* 1 tsp salt (0c)

Marinade
* 1/2 cup sour cream (5g)
* 2 cloves of garlic (1g p/clove)
* 1 tsp salt (0c)
* 1 tsp Paprika (0.5c)
* 1 tsp coriander ground (0.25c)
* 1 tsp grounded cuminn ground (0.7c)
* 1/2 t chili-pepper (to make it hot) (0.25c)
* 1 tsp ground ginger (1c)
* 1/4 tsp food coloring powder
* 5 Tb oil
* 1 tsp salt

So its looking at around 10 carbs for the marinade, which is actually not that bad seeing as its for 2lbs of chicken. I just wont be liberal about the distribution of the marinade. 4 servings at 8oz a piece is only 2,5 carbs per serving, which is pretty good I would think.

if anyone can think of substitues or ingredients that can be taken away in order to lower the carb content let me know.


Im not technically on any rung of atkins. I tend to do it my own way. I keep my carbs lower than 30 per day, drink about 1.5L of water a day, I work out, eat right it works for me as I lose weight

[Afterlife]

I couldnt find a sour cream that didnt have modified corn starch in it, what do I do? Do I use it, or no?

[2big4mysize]

You don't say where you are Krogers just came out with all natural sour cream and Daisy has an all natural. you might get it in a healthfood store. I've never used the modified cornstarch stuff what is the carb count?

[Afterlife]

modfified stuff was like 5.7 carbs per serving (125ml i think).

Anyways the recipe turned out DELICIOUS!!!!! I recommend anyone who likes indian spiced chicken to give it a try, absolutly amazing Next time im going to add in some more chilli powder as I like my food a LOT hotter.

But so far this low crb tandoori chicken is a 10/10

I cubed the chicken and then made my own kebabs after it had marinated over night and then bbq'ed it. OMG was a delicious lunch.

if anyone can find me a chicken tikka masala(the sauce) or a madras sauce or korma sauce id be indebted to you!! thanks.

(Also any ideas on a rice substiture or a indian bread substitute, was looking into spiced flax panckaes..)