Spice blend replacement?
I have been using something called "Tandoori Blend" from spice hunter for years, but they don't seem to make it anymore. :(
I don't think it's a regular tandoori, since it's colored more like a [yellow] curry.
Was wondering if anyone else had used it and knows of a decent replacement, or a good recipe to recreate it from bulk spices.
Best Answer
You have the ingredients, just start mixing spices together and experiment.
That being said, there are tons of recipe for Tandoori spice blends out there; with similar ingredients list, they all have different ratios, again, pick one and experiment with it; they all taste different.
Color : They will also use Annatto seed top color the blend (and I'm sure some will also use red food coloring as a quick hack.)
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The colour from the spices can give us a hint as to the proportions. With 12 ingredients, if they were in equal proportions you'd have 8% turmeric which is already going to do quite a bit to make it yellow.
But it won't have equal proportions: The cayenne and paprika would make it come out red or at least deep orange if so, and the nutmeg flavour would be too strong (possibly also the cardamom and black pepper.
You could get to about 16% turmeric if you had equal proportions of the top 6 ingredients, and tiny amounts of the remaining 6. Reality will be somewhere in between. I would suggest starting from 1 teaspoon of each ingredient (bought in ground form) down to the turmeric, and half a teaspoon of the ingredients after that, or maybe a little less. If it looks too red, add more of all the top 6.
Then use it and taste the result.
You should choose whether to use hot or mild ("sweet") paprika based on whether you want much chilli heat; the cayenne will have some already.
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