the.com/chicken tikka masala
Britain's true national dish, born in a curry house, loyal to no one country.
means A dish of roasted marinated chicken pieces in a creamy, spiced tomato sauce, popular in Britain and across the world.
from Its origin is disputed. Many accounts credit a South Asian chef in a British curry house, often placed in Glasgow, in the 1960s or 1970s, who added a spiced tomato-cream sauce to chicken tikka, a dish of marinated grilled chicken from the Indian subcontinent.
- origin story
- likely invented in Glasgow, not India
- official status
- declared a British dish by Parliament, 2001
- the sauce
- basically ketchup and cream saved a dry curry
- global reach
- now a supermarket staple from Dublin to Dubai