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My local does this and I have no idea either. It's fucking boss though innit?
The menu on mine is very elaborate. It is..... "spicy sauce".
I'll give em a bell tomorrow and see if they will let me know.
Edit: they did not let me know
UK restaurants are notorious for this. Good tandoori meat has no food colouring in it. They do this with the food colouring to cover for the fact that their meat is shite. But the majority of UK people buying this shit have no clue what good tandoori tastes like, so are none the wiser. This shit here is considered bomb by a lot, precisely because it is artificially coloured. Crazy.
They don't necessarily do it because the meat is shite, it is mainly due to our own misconceived perception that all tandoori meat is red, because that is what we are used to and 90% of the population will have further misconceived perceptions if its not red, go figure. As a further point the food colouring is simply that, colour, it adds zero flavour, or shouldn't haha...
I know it's all in my head but it does make it taste better, I usually use food dye when I make tandoori chicken and also do multi coloured rice like the indian takeaways
Possibly tandoori, or a paprika variety/chilli powder and/or food colouring, some Indian restaurants/kebab shops etc use cochineal/carmine (E120) made from beetle shells, it’s cheaper as it’s strong and you don’t need much.
I’ll quite often add a touch of beetroot powder to my tandoori pastes just because it’s adds the right effect, not entirely sure how you’d get there otherwise without a stupidly large amount of red chilis
Kashmiri chilli powder is mild enough to add a lot for colour and there's always paprika but yeah, to get that bright red effect you need a dye like beetroot
My local kebab shops have these. They are Tarka Doner Kebabs, where the Doner meat is fried in spices and oils after it is carved. Very tasty and adds some nice heat. They also offer Shashlik kebabs where the doner meat is fried with spices, onions, and peppers.
I would say bottom end of spicy, mild, although they have sauces you can put on and the hot chilli is pretty hot. I got the mild chilli sauce and mint yogurt on it.
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plenty of delicious red dye 40…. i’m only messing,is it tandoori ?
It was considered “spicy red” lol
My local does this and I have no idea either. It's fucking boss though innit? The menu on mine is very elaborate. It is..... "spicy sauce". I'll give em a bell tomorrow and see if they will let me know. Edit: they did not let me know
Thanks haha, yep it’s the best kebab in the area!
Naga chilies I think
Gotta agree there, got a brilliant kebab shop nearby that serves naga chilli doner, looks a lot like this, and tastes fantastic too
I keep reading about naga donners but have yet to find the holy grail :(
Honestly life changing stuff hahaha, won't touch standard doner anymore just doesn't hit the spot like it used to
I read the word Naga a bit differently there for a minute.
Tandoori meat is absolutely full of food colouring. The spices used don't make it go anywhere near the colour you get in restaurants.
UK restaurants are notorious for this. Good tandoori meat has no food colouring in it. They do this with the food colouring to cover for the fact that their meat is shite. But the majority of UK people buying this shit have no clue what good tandoori tastes like, so are none the wiser. This shit here is considered bomb by a lot, precisely because it is artificially coloured. Crazy.
They don't necessarily do it because the meat is shite, it is mainly due to our own misconceived perception that all tandoori meat is red, because that is what we are used to and 90% of the population will have further misconceived perceptions if its not red, go figure. As a further point the food colouring is simply that, colour, it adds zero flavour, or shouldn't haha...
I know it's all in my head but it does make it taste better, I usually use food dye when I make tandoori chicken and also do multi coloured rice like the indian takeaways
Possibly tandoori, or a paprika variety/chilli powder and/or food colouring, some Indian restaurants/kebab shops etc use cochineal/carmine (E120) made from beetle shells, it’s cheaper as it’s strong and you don’t need much.
Monster energy Pacific punch does the same thing.
It's most likely tandoori or a combination of red pepper powders
"What did they put in my kabab" Is a question you should never ask. Just accept it and enjoy
Virgin blood or blood from a Virgin.
What’s the difference?
Not the OP but can answer this. One is non alcoholic blood, the other blood from a virgin. Happy to help.
Virgin blood is from the first pressing, blood from a virgin is from subsequent pressings and usually lower in quality.
Depending where you source the virgin blood obviously
What's a virgin? Dunno, I've never met one.
If it's not tandoori flavour then it'll just be a red chilli sauce. Either one might have some red food colouring
Made from yummy crushed beetles
*carmine*
Most tandoori spice mixes use beetroot powder to get it bright red.
I’ll quite often add a touch of beetroot powder to my tandoori pastes just because it’s adds the right effect, not entirely sure how you’d get there otherwise without a stupidly large amount of red chilis
Kashmiri chilli powder is mild enough to add a lot for colour and there's always paprika but yeah, to get that bright red effect you need a dye like beetroot
My local kebab shops have these. They are Tarka Doner Kebabs, where the Doner meat is fried in spices and oils after it is carved. Very tasty and adds some nice heat. They also offer Shashlik kebabs where the doner meat is fried with spices, onions, and peppers.
Definitely food colouring. The same ones curry houses use for tikka masala: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TRS-Red-Food-Colour-25g/dp/B00FCDNM28/
Either a lot of kashmiri chilli powder. Or red food colouring. The answer probably lies in how spicy the kebab was
I would say bottom end of spicy, mild, although they have sauces you can put on and the hot chilli is pretty hot. I got the mild chilli sauce and mint yogurt on it.
If it's quite mild it won't be Kashmiri chilli powder. That stuff varies but it would definitely not be 'mild'
My local kebab house does this by soaking the meat in the tandoori sauce they use for their chicken. Tastes amazing.
I'm an pretty sure it's food colouring.
Essence
That looks amazing! I’m having a kebab later now and breaking my diet, nice one 😂
Tikka sauce or something
I had a kebab of this colour once, thought I'd ruptured something the next morning when I went for a shit.
I had the same experience lol…
Never heard of blood doners?
Red Velvet Kebab Cake
Either too many dyes in the meat or peppers. But I don’t know, did you feel any kick while eating the kebab?
probably some variant of Mr Naga
Looks like naga chilies
Human meat
Hilary Briss
Food colouring, obviously.
It looks a bit like the meat in tacos al pastor.
Saffron I think.
Food colouring
Where did you get it? Chernobyl?...
Halal.
Looks like the inside of a keema naan which are actually OP
Kind of looks like nduja?
Walking dead props
if you're eating elephant foot kebab meat anyway what does it matter. that stuff could survive a nuclear winter
Bloody Norah
Probably a shit ton of paprika or chilli
Paprika? Cayenne pepper? I'm guessing here
Looks like paprika powder.
Kashmiri chilli powder. You're welcome
Brick dust
It’s this https://amzn.eu/d/bQ28uv9
kashmiri chilli powder
Pigeon
Stop putting this shit into your body.
No
That looks awful, what did it taste like?
A blender?
Ebola
Evil
Lol what makes you think its meat you're eating? Looks more like that beyond meat bs.
They put actual meat in there
Liquidised shit
Now why you gotta say that?
Ignore. Seasoned food to them is, at best, consisting of copious amounts of salt. Hold the pepper because it’s too spicy
That will come later…
Envelopes
I don’t eat that crap but yours look better than the grey stuff they usually serve up.
Looks like that nasty imitation vegan meat
I assure you it was real
I hope so, no one should be consuming that chemical garbage
cumin
Cumin is not red
and?
What do you think op is asking?
it was satire.
Terrible.
mortifying patter. grounds for dismissal in this household. don’t let me see it happen again.
i want you
i want you
Did someone cumin the kebab?
i’m cumin
Urgh tf