"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
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> D.Currie wrote:
>
>> This is probably a hopeless quest, but...
>>
>> When I was a kid, my mother worked a German restaurant, and the
>> owner/cook made chicken that we always called "Red Chicken." There was
>> probably a name for it on the menu, but I was a kid, so...it might have
>> just been roast chicken, for all I know.
>>
>> Anyway, the place burned down, the owner moved away, and my mother was
>> never able to beg, borrow or steal the secret recipe while she worked
>> there. I think she even offered to buy it, but in any case, he wouldn't
>> tell.
>>
>> The chicken was baked or roasted -- it definitely wasn't fried. It had
>> some sort of coating on it. Not a breading like you'd find on fried
>> chicken, but it wasn't just skin and spices, either. Maybe some kind of
>> thin batter. I don't recall it being crispy or crunchy, either.
>>
>> The color was a deep mahogany reddish-brown when it was served. I have no
>> idea what color it was before cooking, but it had to be some version of
>> red.
>>
>> It wasn't overly spicy, but it had good flavor. Thinking back, I can't
>> recall any one predominant flavor.
>>
>> The owner/cook was from Germany, so I'm hoping that maybe this was some
>> sort of ethnic/regional dish that someone has heard of, rather than
>> something the cook came up with on his own.
>>
>> Any ideas? I googled first, and I found lots of hits for curried red
>> chicken and adding "German" to it didn't help, because then I got red
>> potato salads.
>>
>> Donna
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>
> Are you sure it wan't just Tandoori Chicken?
>
> Best regards,
> Bob

It's sort of close, but something tells me this guy never heard of Tandoori.
Unless....hm....maybe he stole the recipe from one of his dishwashers or
something.

Donna