Chicken tikka???

[BikiniBody2013]

Are we allowed chicken tikka from Indian takeaway as our 100g of chicken??
Thinking of having it tonight with my curry pack. I not can have normal chicken with it x

 

[noodles1609]

I'm pretty sure that would be a no - what is the tikka made from? how is it cooked? It'll likely be up in calories if it's not also up in carbs

 

[Caz]

Nope. It probably has oils in/on it whilst cooking. Plus there will be sugar in the sauce. If you are going to have something it'll be better to have that than anything else.

 

[BikiniBody2013]

No not the sauce just the dry chicken tikka meat, I'm sure I saw on one of the threads that someone had it. It's only chicken and spices isn't it?

 

[Caz]

It's still a sauce though, it just gets dried when they cook it. It's really up to you, you might be ok. All depends on whether you want to risk it really. I tend to but I know that I don't get knocked out of ketosis easily, some others do.

 

[Caz]

Just been looking online and can't find any decent nutritional info on it, varies massively. It will have carbs in it where as plain chicken won't but I wouldn't think it was more then 4-8g based on what I've seen.

 

[BikiniBody2013]

I couldn't find anything on it. I'm really going for a good loss this week so i won't chance it this time. Just gonna cook a plain piece of chicken and have my curry pack with it.
Thanks for your help x

 

[Caz]

The flavour would probably be lost in the curry too unfortunately!

 

[Newclaire2013]

It's often made with yoghurt so the calories vary hugely depending on what type they use.

 

[BikiniBody2013]

I'm cooking my chicken now to have with my curry pack. x x x

 

[Caz]

Good choice I love adding chicken and mushroom to the curry, really bulks it out.

 

[weasey]

I often have chicken tikka now that I'm at goal as it's definitely the best choice in an Indian from a weight maintenance point of view. However, one thing to watch out for whilst on the diet is that it's likely to contain citric acid (from lemons/limes) which could knock you out of ketosis.