Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tandoori grill chicken tikka. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tandoori-style Chicken Tikka Masala is one of the most popular dishes in the world. With a history of British-Indian origins, this charred-chicken dish is typically marinated in a bath of spiced yogurt and lemon juice. It is then seasoned, skewered on long metal rods and roasted inside the raging infernos of handmade clay ovens.
Tandoori grill chicken tikka is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Tandoori grill chicken tikka is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook tandoori grill chicken tikka using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tandoori grill chicken tikka:
- Take 4 pcs Chicken tikka
- Prepare 4 tbsp Yoghurt (whisked)
- Take 1/2 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste
- Prepare 1&1/2 tsp Cumin powder
- Prepare 1&1/2 tsp Coriander powder
- Get As per taste Red chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Chaat masala
- Prepare As per taste Salt
- Get As required Yellow food colour
- Make ready 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- Take 1 tbsp Oil
- Take 3-4 Coal (optional)
- Make ready As required Ghee (optional)
The traditional chicken tikka consists of small pieces of marinated chicken, threaded onto skewers and grilled. Unlike a chicken tikka masala, this is like a dry tandoori! This authentic tandoori chicken tikka is succulent and sure to become a family favourite. The key to getting a tandoori taste is to use Greek-style yoghurt and to baste with melted ghee or butter.
Instructions to make Tandoori grill chicken tikka:
- Clean and wash the chicken and keep it aside. Make cuts on the chicken as shown. This is done so that the masala enters nicely and the chicken gets well marinated.
- Take a bowl add yoghurt, ginger garlic paste, zeera powder, dhaniya powder, red chilli powder, garam masala, chaat masala, salt, food colour and lemon juice. Mix all the ingredients nicely.
- Take the chicken and start applying the above mixture. Massage the chicken for few minutes so that the masala gets absorbed.
- Cover the bowl and refrigerate it. It is advisable to allow marination for abt 7 to 8 hrs or overnight, this gives you a good result and taste.
- Take a pan heat it with 1tbsp of olive oil or any cooking oil. Now add the marinated chicken tikka. Cook on high flame for about 4-5 mins. Turn on other side and cook in the same way. (Note: Don't cover the pan with the lid during this process). Apply the remaining masala on the chicken with oil brush and cook.
- Now cover the lid and allow the chicken to cook on low flame. Cook on both sides. Tadaa your restaurant style tandoori chicken tikka is ready.
- Optional- burn a coal and place it in between the cooked tikka and pour some ghee on the coal and cover it for sometimes.
Undoubtedly Tandoori chicken is the king of all tikkas in the tandoor repertoire. Amidst all the street food, kebabs, tikkas, biryanis and grilled meats I've scoffed down over the years in India and the UK; this dish is a firm fixture on every restaurant and street cart menu. If every plate tells a story, the food at Tandoori Grill jumps several chapters to write a new book. A joyous celebration of regional North Indian flavors is brought to life using fresh local produce using family recipes passed down through the generations. So while a Tikka may be Chicken breast, Tandoori may be any part of the chicken including legs, wings, half chicken, or even complete chicken prepared in this fashion.
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