Indian BBQ

I'm planning on having a belated 30th birthday bash at my place in late January so I've started trying out lots of different recipes in preparation. On the weekend I tried a bunch of Indian recipes perfect for the BBQ.

* Vegetable samosas
* Chicken tikka skewers
* Tandoori drumets
* Saute'd vegetables

The chicken tikka skewers were the best followed closely by the tandoori drumets. The saute'd vegetables were good but could have been better and the vegetable samosas were a bit of a disaster. The recipes were all pretty easy I just managed to stuff up the samosas when attempting to roll the filling up in the filo pastry. The pastry was a little old and had been defrosted a couple of times so it all just stuck together and I basically lost 75% of the pastry due to rips and tears. Not happy Jan.

The tandoori drumets were dam tasty but lacked the right color. Everything was supposed to be cooked outside on the BBQ but due to Melbourne's horrid summer weather. What's with the SUMMER weather? It's the 20th of December and Mt Hotham had snow. Crazy! Anyway, due to weather everything got cooked in the oven and under the grill. Again, I don't think I got the temperature just right so the bright red tandoori color never showed. I also need to add a bit more paprika next time.