Chicken marinated overnight, cooked on skewers in the tandoor, then simmered through ground spices, onions, tomatoes, cream and bell pepper. Made fresh on Beaumont Street, Hamilton, from $11.90.
Raj's Corner cooks chicken tikka masala every day at 116 Beaumont Street, Hamilton. It is marked med hot on the menu, it is gluten free and nut free, and it is cooked without MSG. Order it in three sizes for pick up, for delivery, or eat it in the dining room.
Tikka masala starts as tandoori chicken. Thigh pieces are marinated overnight in yoghurt and spices, threaded onto skewers and cooked in the clay tandoor until the edges char. Only then does the chicken go into the masala gravy, which is built from ground spices, onions, tomatoes, cream and bell pepper.
That first step is the part most people taste and cannot name. The smoke from the tandoor stays in the meat, so the sauce carries a roasted flavour that a chicken piece poached straight in gravy never gets.
Nothing is frozen and nothing is cooked with MSG. Naan dough, dips and sauces are made on site daily, and the spices come from Raj's Spice and Groceries, the Indian grocery next door on Beaumont Street.
Every chicken main below is $11.90 small, $17.90 medium and $19.90 large. The difference is the gravy and the heat.
Med hot. Tandoori chicken cooked along with ground spices, onions, tomatoes, cream and bell pepper. Marked GF and NF.
Mild, with a creamy tomato gravy. The one to order for children or anyone who wants flavour without heat. Read more about our butter chicken in Newcastle.
Mild and rich, a creamy gravy with no chilli edge. A good middle ground if tikka masala sounds too warm.
Mild and sweet, cooked in a mango cream sauce. The sweetest chicken dish on the counter.
Med hot, cooked in an iron wok with onions, capsicum and coriander seed. Drier and sharper than tikka masala.
Plain naan $4.50 or garlic naan $4.90 for the gravy, basmati rice $5.50 to $7.50, raita $4.50 to $6.00 and pappadums $3.50 for four. Our naan comes out of the same tandoor.
Order ahead and pick it up on Beaumont Street, or have it delivered free after 5:00pm within 5km.
Meat and vegetables are bought fresh. Naan dough, dips and sauces are made on site every day, and no dish is cooked with MSG.
Every dish carries its dietary codes, GF gluten free, NF nut free, DF dairy free and V vegan, so you can order without a conversation about ingredients.
Kuldip and Sylvia Sangha opened the counter at 116 Beaumont Street in 1998 after running Flavours of North India in Sydney from 1991. Kuldip was born in Budhlada, Punjab. The dining room was added in 2011 and the business has never been franchised.
Chicken tikka masala is $11.90 for a small, $17.90 for a medium and $19.90 for a large at Raj's Corner, 116 Beaumont Street, Hamilton NSW 2303. Rice is ordered separately at $5.50 to $7.50, plain naan is $4.50 and garlic naan is $4.90.
Butter chicken is mild, with a creamy tomato gravy and no chilli heat. Chicken tikka masala at Raj's Corner is marked med hot and is made with tandoori chicken cooked along with ground spices, onions, tomatoes, cream and bell pepper, so it is more savoury and more spiced than butter chicken. Both use tandoor cooked chicken and both cost $11.90 small, $17.90 medium and $19.90 large.
The menu marks chicken tikka masala med hot, so it has a definite warmth but it is not the hottest dish on the board. The only dish marked hot is the beef vindaloo. If med hot is more than you want, butter chicken, chicken korma and mango chicken are all mild, and a raita at $4.50 to $6.00 takes the edge off any curry.
Yes. Chicken tikka masala is marked (GF) gluten free and (NF) nut free on the menu and it is cooked without MSG. It is not dairy free, because the gravy is finished with cream. Every dish at Raj's Corner carries its dietary codes: GF gluten free, NF nut free, DF dairy free and V vegan.
Yes. Delivery is free after 5:00pm within 5km of 116 Beaumont Street, Hamilton. You can also order ahead online or by phone on (02) 4962 1827 and pick it up, or eat in the dining room. The kitchen is open 7 days from 10:30am to 10:00pm, with twenty two curries on display and around twenty more made to order.
We are on the Hamilton end of Beaumont Street, with the Indian grocery next door. Eat in the dining room, order ahead for pick up, or have dinner delivered. If you are not sure what you feel like, the curry counter has twenty two curries on display before you even get to the made to order list.
