Tasks from our everyday lives, such as cooking, involve initiating and accomplishing multiple sub-tasks. Over time, we usually master or improve upon these processes with practice. Let’s apply these two concepts; a cooking recipe and hands-on coding experience, to learn more about Java’s Future and CompletableFuture API, important "utensils" to cater to asynchronous or non-blocking needs in Java. In this session, we’ll walk through centuries old Indian recipe ‘Paneer Tikka Masala’- a dish cherished by folk across the globe. In the talk, we’ll draw a parallel between the challenges of our recipe’s parts which involve asynchronicity and non-blocking activities, and how Java's APIs can address them in similar situations in your application code. Learning these concepts using Coding Katas, together we will fix failing code, hands-on, and learn how to work with Java’s CompletableFuture. By following a trail of TODOs and HINTs in the code, and an accompanying README, all integrated in the same project, you’ll experience the code, rather than just watching a deck, in an Integrated Development Environment! If you are a library or an API author, this talk may inspire you to create Code Katas to help others understand and correctly use your libraries/API. With this session you’ll learn how to make Paneer Tikka Masala and while learning new or better ways to use Java asynchronous and non-blocking APIs.