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

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

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