Is it true that chicken tikka masala came from glasgow?!
Is it true that chicken tikka masala came from glasgow?
Answers:
This sucks, cause I thought it was truly an Indian dish!
Chicken tikka masala is a westernized "Indian" dish based on baked chicken (Chicken Tikka) cooked in a curry sauce. It is highly popular throughout the world and is believed to have originated in the United Kingdom.
The most widely accepted opinion as to the origins of the dish is that it was conceived in an Indian restaurant in Glasgow in the mid fifties, when a customer - not impressed by the traditional food with which he was presented - asked if the chef could add some "gravy". In Glasgow parlance "gravy" is a common word for all manner of different sauces, and is distinct from the more typically English definition of gravy as a thickened sauce, usually made from a base of extracts that run from meat and/or vegetables during cooking. The chef then produced a version of the now famous marinated chicken, complete with a delicious sauce made from tomato, yogurt and spices. This explanation has gained force in recent years, so much so that it featured as the answer to a "General Ignorance" round of the popular BBC quiz show QI.
Further theories allege that it originated in British India (which included modern Pakistan and Bangladesh) to adapt local dishes to the British palate
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chicken_tik...