{"id":134,"date":"2004-12-23T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T13:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:21:49","slug":"pataks-tikka-masala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2004\/12\/pataks-tikka-masala\/","title":{"rendered":"Patak&#8217;s Tikka Masala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights ago I served chicken with <strong>Patak&#8217;s Tikka Masala simmering sauce<\/strong> which I bought at Cost Plus ($3.50 for a 15 oz jar, enough for 1 lb chicken and 2 1\/2 people). It was OK but it didn&#8217;t taste at all like tikka masala. Mostly it tasted like other generic jarred or frozen Indian curries. Its main ingredient was oil, so it&#8217;s very fatty (but it gave a wonderfully tender consistency to the chicken), followed by lemon juice, so it&#8217;s also very sour. I don&#8217;t feel any compelling reason to buy it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights ago I served chicken with Patak&#8217;s Tikka Masala simmering sauce which I bought at Cost Plus ($3.50 for a 15 oz jar, enough for 1 lb chicken and 2 1\/2 people). It was OK but it didn&#8217;t taste at all like tikka masala. Mostly it tasted like other generic jarred or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[153,279,28,441,706],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","tag-indian","tag-indian-food","tag-reviews","tag-tikka-masala","tag-world-market","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}