Chicken tikka masala
Chicken tikka masala

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This is an easy recipe for Chicken Tikka Masala–chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and then served in a tomato cream sauce. Serve with rice or warm flatbreads. It's easy to confuse these two Indian dishes: they're both chicken in a creamy, tomato-based, spicy sauce.

Chicken tikka masala is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chicken tikka masala is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken tikka masala using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken tikka masala:
  1. Take Marinade For
  2. Prepare 400 gm Chicken
  3. Make ready 2 tbsps Ginger paste
  4. Make ready 2 tbsps Garlic paste
  5. Get 3 tsps chili powder Kashmiri   red
  6. Get 1 tsp Salt
  7. Make ready 1 ⁄ 4 tsps Turmeric powder
  8. Make ready Salt
  9. Prepare 2 tbsps Hung curd
  10. Get 1 Teaspoon Garam Masala
  11. Get 1 ⁄ 2 tsps Sesame seed crushed
  12. Prepare 1 Lemon juice
  13. Get 2 tbsps Oil
  14. Take For Gravy
  15. Prepare 4 Onion
  16. Take 1 Cup Tomato Puree
  17. Get 1 Tablespoon Ginger garlic paste
  18. Prepare 1 Teaspoon Coriander powder
  19. Make ready 1 ⁄ 2 Teaspoons Red chilli powder
  20. Take pinch Cardamom seed powder a
  21. Get 1 ⁄ 2 Teaspoons methi fenugreek Dried kasoori or powder
  22. Prepare 1/2 cup Water
  23. Get 4 tbsps Fresh Cream
  24. Get handful Coriander leaves for garnish
  25. Make ready 2 tbsps Oil
  26. Make ready 1 tbsp Ghee
  27. Prepare To Taste Salt

And the chicken is perfectly tender with the creamiest, most flavor-packed sauce ever! Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Slice the chicken into bite-sized chunks. Combine the cubed chicken with the yogurt, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, salt, cumin, garam masala, and paprika and stir until well-coated.

Instructions to make Chicken tikka masala:
  1. In a bowl, add ingredients mentioned for marinade to chicken pieces. Leave aside for 3-5 hours or overnight if you can. Preheat the oven to 230°C, place the chicken pieces in a baking pan and put on the normal mode for 10 min. Then switch the mode to the roast mode for 7 mins.
  2. Switch back to normal mode for 5 min and then back on roast mode for 7 min or till the pieces get the beautiful red color.
  3. Saute  onion in oil till it becomes transparent and then to this add ginger garlic paste. Saute till raw smell disappears. Add garam masala and saute for a min.
  4. To this add pureed tomato and cook till oil separates. Add chili powder and coriander powder and saute till raw smell disappears. Add any leftover marinade from the chicken and let it come to a boil. Remove from pan and blend the mixture to a smooth paste.
  5. Meanwhile remove the chicken pieces from the rod, heat ghee in a pan and saute the pieces further, for 5 min on medium flame. Remove from the pan, add cardamom seed powder to the oil, add the blended paste.
  6. Cook for 2 mins. Add roasted chicken pieces and juice of the chicken from the baking pan. Stir for 2 min, add water if you want light gravy. Add kasoori methi and cook for 5 min. Finish by adding cream and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

Line a high-sided baking pan or roasting tray with parchment paper. Chicken Tikka Masala is a curry of roasted chicken pieces in a spicy sauce. The curry is known for its rich creamy texture. Chicken pieces are marinated in yogurt and spices and baked in an oven/pan fried. The fried pieces are then cooked in an aromatic  sauce and later, heavy cream is added to it to give a creamy texture.

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