Menu:

Chicken Tikka Masala with Basmati rice, red lentil Dhal, and fresh Naan bread.

Mango Chutney.

Vegetarian Plate: Same, but without the Chicken!

Nothing served at Tandoozy contains artificial preservatives, or high fructose corn syrup.

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Handmade Food:

We marinate the chicken tikka in yogurt, fresh-squeezed lemon juice and freshly ground, dry-roasted spices. At the Market, we cook the skewered chicken tikka in our* tandoor ovens. The cooked chicken is then added to the tomato- and cream-based spiced sauce (yes, we make that also “from scratch”), and served on basmati rice, with a piece of naan bread. Our hand-made mango chutney is great to add some sweet and sour and spicy spike to your meal.

    The Naan bread is baked on-site in our dedicated “for bread only“ gas-fired tandoor oven. We make a variety of Naans - chef’s choice - with sesame seeds, nigella seeds, garlic and cilantro and brush on some olive oil or butter, but we do not drown the bread in oil or ghee, so it is a little different from the Naan you typically get at Indian restaurants. (Our Pakistani Food Authenticity Advisor said that’s how it’s done, and she oughta know.)

   We recently have added a wholesome and flavorful vegan red lentil dhal curry to our menu, as a vegetable side to the chicken tikka masala, and as protein source for our non-meat-eating guests.

Environment, Health & Food Preparation:

We are working on being more part of the solution, and less part of the problem:

If you order your food to-go, it is served in compostable clamshell to-go containers, and even our forks can be composted. For those of you who eat at Tandoozy around the fire, we serve the food on compostable plates.

We do not sell anything that contains high fructose corn syrup.

We do not use artificial coloring, or artificial anything in our food. The nice yellow/orange color is from colorful spices like turmeric, and paprika.

We offer bottled water and real-sugar soda for sale. Please recycle the beverage containers.

We serve real food, and this real food is “slow food” until it comes to you.

We make all of our food from scratch.

We prep and store all food in our shared Commercial Kitchen in Lower Queen Anne in accordance with Local, County and State Health regulations.

Background of the dish:

Chicken Tikka Masala is said to be the single most-sold dish in the world.

It is one of the first “fusion” dishes that was reportedly discovered in Glasgow, Scotland, when a diner at an Indian restaurant found the tandoori chicken too dry, and asked for some gravy. As the story goes, the chef heated some tomato soup, refined it with some cream, and added a bunch of Indian spices, and the idea of Chicken Tikka Masala was born! It has gotten better since. (e.g. there is no “too dry chicken” at Tandoozy.)

*Our Handmade Tandoors:

Tandoors have been used for about 5,000 years (and are still being used in countries such as India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) to bake bread, and, more recently, to cook meats. They are usually -fired clay vessels.

    We developed our tandoors based on traditional concepts, but utilizing modern materials to allow us to move the tandoors frequently with less risk of breaking them. Craig, who developed the process and builds our ovens, has experience building glassblowing furnaces, and he was able to use this knowledge to make our fabulous mobile tandoors.

    This is, coincidentally, similar to what the first glass makers and later, glassblowers probably did many years ago in Mesopotamia, Syria and also India—only that they likely started out with knowledge of tandoors and went on to use them for working glass :).

Come stop by and ask us about the tandoors, we are proud of them and happy to talk about them.

Tandoozy Plans:

We are working on expanding our business by adding a fully mobile Tandoozy setup, with that we will pick up a few weekday locations to serve lunch, likely somewhere in Downtown Seattle, or Belltown. Please let us know if you think we should bring Tandoozy somewhere near you! Check back for news.

Social Networks:

You can follow Tandoozy on Twitter and Facebook - look for Tandoozy. And we are a member of biznik. You can find us on yelp and Urbanspoon.

     

Contact us: info@tandoozy.com