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

Mango Chutney.

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Nothing served at Tandoozy contains artificial preservatives, artificial coloring 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-based spiced sauce (yes, we make that also “from scratch”), and served on basmati rice, with a side of dhal and a piece of naan bread. Our Tandoozy-made mango chutney is great to add some sweet and sour and savory and spicy spike to your meal.

The naan bread is baked on-site in our dedicated “for bread only“ tandoor oven.  Naan is best fresh out of the tandoor, and we like to serve it up right from the fire onto your plate - with a brush of some olive oil, garlic and cilantro.

We are also serving a wholesome and flavorful vegan red lentil dhal curry, 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 biodegradable clamshell to-go containers. Our forks and plates can be composted.

Our Naan is made of flour from sustainably grown, Washington wheat. Check out Shepherds Grain’s website for more information on their business model that is based on Environmental Health, Social Justice and Economic Profitability. Our values mesh very well with SG’s, and we are excited to use SG’s flour. We hope you are too.

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 we make all of our food from scratch.

We make our naan bread fresh and give it to you while it is still hot from the tandoor.

We use only Halal Chicken. Click here to view the certificate from our supplier.

We prep our food in our shared Commercial Kitchen in Renton in accordance with Local, County and State Health regulations.

Background of the food:

Chicken Tikka Masala is said to be the single most-sold dish at least in the UK. It should be described as Indian/Fusion.

The dish 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, and at least at Tandoozy, there is no dairy involved.)

Aside from that fusion part of the Chicken Tikka Masala - Naan and Dhal and rice are staples in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, and many more countries in the region, and the tandoori chicken that is the basis of our Chicken Tikka Masala is Indian.

We have heard many compliments from guests from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan on our dhal and naan which makes us especially happy, because it is such comfort food and so very much part of South Asian culinary tradition.

*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 charcoal- or wood-fired clay vessels.

We developed our tandoors based on traditional concepts, but use 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.

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

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Contact us: info@tandoozy.com

                        ... or come talk to us at the Market :)