Chicken Tikka

Name: Chicken Tikka
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 125 ml (½ cup) thick plain yoghurt; 15 g (½ cup) coriander (cilantro) leaves, chopped; 4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped; 5 cm (2 inch) piece of ginger, roughly chopped; 2 tablespoons garam masala; 1½ tablespoons lemon juice; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) skinless chicken breast fillets, cut into cubes; wedges of lemon; 1 teaspoon chilli powder; ½ tablespoon paprika

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Food of India

By Priya Wickramasinghe

Published 2005

About

Loosely translated to mean ‘chunks of chicken’, this dish contains chicken marinated in a spicy yoghurt sauce, then cooked in a tandoor. You can use an oven or grill (broiler).

Ingredients

MARINADE

½ tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon chilli powder
2

Asia
India
Snack
Starter
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

For the marinade, blend all the ingredients together in a food processor until smooth, or chop the garlic, ginger and coriander leaves more finely and mix with the rest of the marinade ingredients. Season with salt, to taste.

Put the chicken cubes in a bowl with the marinade and mix thoroughly. Cover and marinate overnight in the fridge.

Heat the oven to 200°C (400°F/Gas 6). Thr