Chicken Tikka Masala Wontons

JohnInCarolina

I love my CTM pizza I do on the Roccbox.  For awhile I’ve been thinking about how to turn that into some kind of appetizer.  

Some of you may remember the Pulled Pork Pillows I did a few years ago.  Sort of an open-faced eggroll type deal.  These were very similar.

First I made the tikka masala sauce, but instead of large chunks of chicken breast, I used pulled chicken:




It makes it into almost a paste, which is easier to put into the wontons.  Or stuff into anything really.  This stuff would probably make for some kick-butt enchiladas!

Anyway... I digress.  I pre-baked the wontons in muffin pans for about ten minutes at 350F.  That crisps them up a bit so they’re less likely to turn out soggy:



Then I stuffed them with the chicken tikka masala paste and topped them with some mozzarella cheese and a couple different types of onions.  I tried grilled, diced and fried onions.  



Then into the BGE for another ten minutes at 350.  These don’t take long at all.  Garnished with cilantro and a squeeze of lime (hat tip to @caliking for the suggestion):



Verdict: these are delicious.  Ton of flavor, and just the right amount of heat. The consensus was that the grilled onions were the best, although really it’s not as big a difference there as I thought it might be.  I did some of these in the oven too, and what’s interesting is that you do pick up a hint of smoke from the Egg, even though they’re only in there for ten minutes.  That part definitely makes a difference. 

Next time I’ll probably use a low moisture skim mozzarella rather than the fresh stuff, as the latter is just a little too moist.  But I made a ton of these for our family of four tonight and there were zero leftovers.

Thanks for looking!

Canugghead

Nice fusion cook.  Good candidate for eggfest cook but to keep up with demand may be a good idea to prebake the wonton wrappers, then fill and finish cooking without the pan.

thetrim

Wow!  Great work, John!  These are super cool, and I can confirm that your Chicken Tikka Masala your is AMAZING!

smokingal

Very nice work!

JohnInCarolina

Canugghead said:

Nice fusion cook.  Good candidate for eggfest cook but to keep up with demand may be a good idea to prebake the wonton wrappers, then fill and finish cooking without the pan.

I’ll probably never cook at a fest man.  Although with two levels you could rotate these in and out constantly and probably keep a pretty steady stream going.

Anyway, finishing without the pan is worth trying!  

caliking

Marvelous. Just marvelous.

I tried the wonton thing after seeing your pulled pork pillow cook  some years back, but  goofed somehow and ended up with chewy wontons. Need to give it another whirl. 

Canugghead

We are suckers for cooking at fest, have been cooking almost every year. Leaning towards attending as taster this year, deadline to sign up as either is tomorrow, decision, decision. 
https://www.dicksonsmokeshow.com/

JohnnyTarheel

Man o man that looks good...  

johnmitchell

Looks and sounds great.

blind99

niiiiiice work!  great technique.

northGAcock

lousubcap

Strong cook right there.  I'm sure the flavor profile was awesome.  Congrats.

JohnInCarolina

Bump.  Made these again last night for a small party at our house. I made a couple of changes.

Instead of fresh mozz I used shredded low moisture mozz, and mixed it up with the CTM before putting it into the wontons.  This works miles better, in the sense that they’re not soggy at all.  The cheese just melts up with the CTM into goodness.  I also had a dropper filled with freshly squeezed lime juice to make it easier to put a few drops in each.  Getting that lime zip in there adds a nice little tang.

blind99

I am so damned hungry now. How do you do the CTM sauce?

theyolksonyou

BAM!

JohnInCarolina

blind99 said:

I am so damned hungry now. How do you do the CTM sauce?

I have a discussion on it here somewhere.  I use the same recipe I use to make the sauce for my CTM pizza.

lkapigian

Pretty cool John!

Wolfpack

Don’t know how I missed the first post- these look awesome. Thanks for the idea 

lentsboy007

U have a recipe for the pulled pork pillows ?

StillH2OEgger

Another winner!

g8golfer

Yessir that looks fantastic 

JohnInCarolina

lentsboy007 said:

U have a recipe for the pulled pork pillows ?

Yes I have a thread on those:

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1189576/whos-down-with-ppp

blind99

JohnInCarolina said:

blind99 said:

I am so damned hungry now. How do you do the CTM sauce?

I have a discussion on it here somewhere.  I use the same recipe I use to make the sauce for my CTM pizza.

Fine, I’ll exercise my google-fu

TideEggHead

Great looking cook!

blind99

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1213297/ot-tikka-masala-pizza-sauce/p1

smbishop

Fantastic, thank you!

YukonRon

Smdh.

Dude.

Pure genius.

I felt like a champ when I pulled BB rib meat and double smoked it for PP BBQ sammies using a blue cheese sriracha cole slaw topping,  with fries.

I got nothin'. The pinot noir rosé was spot on though.