Chicken Tikka

Ingredients for Chicken Tikka:

1. Boneless chicken – 1 kg
2. Curd – 1 cup
   Coriander powder – 1-2 big spoons
   Ginger paste – 2 big spoons
   Garlic paste – 3 big spoons
   Salt – 1.5 big spoons
   Garam masala powder – 1 big spoon
   Red chillies – 2 or 3
   Chilli powder – 1 small spoon
   Lemon juice – 3 big spoons
   Cardamom – 4, powdered after removing skin
   Cinnamon powder – 1 small spoon
3. Onions – 2 big
   Green capsicum – 2
4. Olive oil – As required
5. Chat masala – As required
6. Onion chopped into rings, and lemon pieces – To decorate

How to prepare Chicken Tikka?

1. Clean chicken and cut it into small pieces for Chicken Tikka. Use a fork to penetrate here and there.
2. Mix all the ingredients in a big plastic bowl.
3. Add chicken to it, marinate well and let it rest for 2-3 hours.
4. Cut ingredients no: 3 into square pieces similar to chicken pieces.
5. Thread the marinated chicken pieces onto the skewer one by one, along with onions and capsicum in alternate sequence.
6. Spray olive oil, and bake in the oven for 20 minutes, pre-heated at 200-230 degree celsious. Take care, your chicken doesn’t turn dry.
7. Sprinkle chat masala once you take it out.
8. Decorate with onion rings and lemon pieces.
9. Serve hot with mint chutney.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine March 1-14, 2014

Also read: Grilled Chicken

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