Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken tikka masala. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Learn, how to make Indian Chicken Tikka Masala, chicken tikka masala recipe, punjabi chicken tikka Chicken Tikka Masala is one of the very popular chicken recipe of India after Butter Chicken. Slice the chicken into bite-sized chunks. Combine the cubed chicken with the yogurt, lemon juice.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken tikka masala using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
- Prepare 2 tbls butter or ghee
- Get 1 onion, finally chopped
- Make ready 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
- Take 1/2 yellow bell pepper, chopped
- Get 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Get 1 tbls ground cumin
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 tsp ground ginger
- Take 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/4 tsp tumeric
- Prepare 1 can (14 oz) tomato sauce
- Take 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Take 2 tsp paprika
- Get 1 tbls white sugar
- Make ready 1 tbls vegetable oil
- Make ready 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
- Take 1/2 tsp curry powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt, or to taste (optional)
- Get 1 tsp white sugar, or to taste (optional)
- Prepare Chopped cilantro (optional)
This easy and delicious homemade recipe tastes just like the best Indian restaurant. This dish is made with chicken that gets marinated in a spicy curry sauce with plain yogurt and cooked with tomatoes, spices, and more plain yogurt. This Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe is so easy to make right at home using simple and delicious ingredients including spices, tomato sauce, onion, garlic, ginger, cream, and butter. Chicken Tikka Masala is made in two parts with a spiced yogurt and lemon marinade on the chicken and a creamy tomato spiced sauce that are combined after cooking much like Butter chicken.
Steps to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
- Heat butter or ghee in a large skillet over medium heat and cook onion, peppers until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Heat vegetable oil in a separate skillet over medium heat. Stir chicken into hot oil, sprinkle with curry powder and sear chicken until lightly browned but still pink inside, about 3 minutes, stir often.
- Stir in garlic, and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in cumin, 1 tsp salt, ginger, cayenne, cinnamon and tumeric, fry until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in tomato sauce, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Simmer sauce for 10 minutes, then mix in cream, paprika and 1 tbls sugar. Bring sauce back to a simmer and cook, stirring often, until sauce has thickened, 10-15 minutes.
- Transfer chicken and any pan juices Into the sauce. Simmer chicken in sauce until no longer pink. About 30 minutes. Adjust salt and sugar to taste.
- Serve over basmati or jasmine rice. Top with chopped cilantro.
- Note: sugar is optional in this recipe. The bell peppers (to me) add enough sweetness. You can also adjust the cayenne level to your liking. The heavy cream really tames down the heat.
- Enjoy!!
And the chicken is perfectly Two. I had no one to share this chicken tikka masala with! So I had all four servings in one whole day. Chicken tikka masala is a great introduction to cooking Indian food. Although it's not as traditional as most curries, it's flavorful and easy to make at home.
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