Tigers Experience with Saransh Goila

This called the power of Facebook - connected with this your celebrity Chef Saransh - got on his case to make me taste the Dhuandar Smoked Butter Chicken - fortunately for me he was visiting Delhi for a Food award function - where i was also invited - met up with him and clicked instantly that he invited me to his house the next day to sample the Smoked Butter Chicken and also to witness how he makes it at his house.

Young enthusiastic talented - clear in his approach towards the dish and also towards his life - very impressive . He is also blessed with the most supporting family . Saransh lives in Pitampura , has a fantastic bachelors pad - with a gorgeous kitchen , small trendy dinning room and a HUGE home theater Hall with 12 recliners and a BIG screen , one simple bedroom connected to a pool table room . Super bachelor Pad , made me jealous. His parents stay in the same building a couple of floors below and ask how proud they are of their son hahahaha.

We were 5 foodies , a bunch of his old school friends , parents and his sister for the demo .

We were greeted by the Bar , Snacks which were simple and innovative - cheese and Basil dip with Nachos ANd  Soya Champ kebabs for the veggies .

Below is the starting of the Butter Chicken , like a pig i dug into it the minute i saw it - was not done completely but tasted fab - fresh tomatoes, yellow butter ,garlic - No Cream  . He cooks it slowly slowly on slow fire with so much patience it amazed me how the gravy changes its colours while it matures .Saransh puts boneless half marinated chicken in the gravy towards the end.

While the BC is resting to absorb all the flavors , the butter , the garlic etc - we see a demo of his home theater - never seen something like this before - better than a cinema hall for sure . Also by this time the old monk had started getting to me - the balcony was the smokers den - we had a impromptu Jam with a couple of his friends who had super vocal chords . I played the plastic mug instead of my usual drum and we jammed , til we were called for the BC christening.

Here the Act of the Smoking section begins .A steel Katori made to float on the thick BC gravy 

On the first flame you can see the Wood Coal being burnt 

In goes the first piece of coal was like a science project perfect timing perfect temperature, well cooking is science .

Both are in .

This follows the Chunk of butter in the katori to make the coal really smoke up and sizzle .

This was the last glance of the BC being smoked under the lid for the next 15 mins 

Thats it he covers it and makes it rest for 15mins . 

I have had a lot of Butter chickens , saransh BC was different the smoked flavor actually did magic to the traditional Butter chicken . The coal and butter smoke was too good , the taste lingered around til next afternoon LOL - Saransh's BC is his own style cannot compare to the one available in the restaurants - a completely different look , texture and flavor 

And here comes the magic ,by now the whole house how was smelling of beautiful wood coal , mouth drooling hahahaha - besides the BC there was Sindhi kadi with Matter pulao made by his mom , Paneer , Dahi Bhallas from a local haunt much better than the chandni chowk guy  , home made parmessan and basil dip for the nachos , veg soya tikkas  and the Mighty Smoked Butter chicken with home made roomalis.

Saransh is a gracious Host had organised a bottle of Old Monk for the die hard Me and btw i was only kidding with him about organising a bottle lol , besides his vast collections of malts . Does he drink - not sure ? have to go back to his again to check the same. 

To end the diner they had organised some amazing fusion Paan  i had the Butter scotch ice cream pan - hahahahaha never had something like this before - cold ice cream in a meetha pan was a fusion of flavors . Loved it .

Overall a very interesting evening ,met a great chef , saw him in action . made new friends - such evening have no commercial values attached to them and cannot be rated on the experience scale - they are just an awesome experience . 

Saransh im looking forward to more and specially the Yellow Daal with Paan Tadka . Thank you once again for the lovely evening , wish you al the best. And yes yes nice to see you on Prime time TV with Sanjeev Kapoor. 

Being a butter chicken buff , i can tell u the gravy was nice and Tangy , the chicken was well cooked in the gravy .. the smoked effect was a killer , an old concept used very well . Saransh sure is progressive.

A special mention to his family , amazing people , sure know how to look after guest and are so very proud of Saransh's achievement , aren't we all !!!!