Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Tikka Masala

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken tikka masala. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Chicken Tikka Masala is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Tikka Masala is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must 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:
  1. Get butter or ghee
  2. Make ready onion, finally chopped
  3. Prepare red bell pepper, chopped
  4. Prepare yellow bell pepper, chopped
  5. Get garlic, minced
  6. Take ground cumin
  7. Take salt
  8. Prepare ground ginger
  9. Take cayenne pepper
  10. Take ground cinnamon
  11. Prepare tumeric
  12. Make ready tomato sauce
  13. Make ready heavy whipping cream
  14. Take paprika
  15. Prepare white sugar
  16. Get vegetable oil
  17. Get skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
  18. Prepare curry powder
  19. Take salt, or to taste (optional)
  20. Prepare white sugar, or to taste (optional)
  21. 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.

Instructions to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
  1. Heat butter or ghee in a large skillet over medium heat and cook onion, peppers until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Serve over basmati or jasmine rice. Top with chopped cilantro.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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