Chicken Tikka Masala
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Chicken Tikka Masala is a popular dish in many Indian restaurants. Supposedly this dish was created in a Glasglow Scotland restaurant when a customer ordered some Chicken Tikka and thought it was too dry. He ordered some gravy to go along wth the dish. The chef complied and made a sauce from tomato soup, yoghurt, and spices. The story isn't proven ...but the dish has become very popular. It even became Britain's "true national dish".
We really liked this dish. Feel free to adjust seasoning to your own taste. Add more cream if you like. We served it with some homemade Indian flatbread...Paratha[Sidu's recipe~a Bigoven member]. You can also serve it with some homemade Naan bread.
"I would have thought it next to impossible to recreate CTM at home. This recipe nails it. This is definitely restaurant quality stuff. The whole process takes a bit of time, but it's time enoyably spent, no stress at all. In my house, it's more likely to become an "impress the company" than a regular thing, but I'll certainly be making it again. I'd like to experiment with cooking the chicken outside on the grill next time, to add a little smokiness. But it's delicious as it stands." - dakotarussellYield: 8 Servings Ready in 10 hours
Cuisine: IndianMain Ingredient: Chicken
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Notes Chicken Tikka Masala Preparation
FOR THE CHICKEN: Combine cumin, coriander, cayenne, and salt in small bowl.Sprinkle both sides of chicken with spice mixture, pressing gently so mixture adheres. Add the crushed garlic and ginger.Rub it on the chicken and drizzle the olive oil. Place chicken in a ziploc bag and refrigerate overnight (or several hours).Take the chicken out from the fridge and add the yoghurt. Make sure it coats the chicken well. Let marinate for another 1-2 hours. In the meantime, get all the ingredients for the masala ready.
FOR THE SAUCE: Heat oil in large Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add onion and cook, stirring frequently, until light golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, chile, tomato paste, and garam masala; cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 3 minutes.Add crushed tomatoes, sugar, turmeric, and salt; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. It is at this point that you may adjust the seasoning and add more spice if you like it spicier. Stir in cream and return to simmer.Remove pan from heat and cover to keep warm.
While sauce simmers, grill chicken on medium heat. Make sure you coat the chicken well with the yoghurt. Also, make sure you oil the grill ...as the chicken can easily stick. You can also do the chicken in the oven using the broiler. Just adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat broiler. Dip chicken into yogurt mixture (chicken should be coated with thick layer of yogurt) and arrange on wire rack set in foil-lined rimmed baking sheet or broiler pan. Discard excess yogurt mixture. Broil chicken until thickest parts register 160 degrees on instant-read thermometer and exterior is lightly charred in spots, 10 to 18 minutes, flipping chicken halfway through cooking. Let chicken rest 5 minutes, then cut into 1-inch chunks and stir into warm sauce (do not simmer chicken in sauce). Stir in cilantro, and serve over rice.
Tips:
If your sauce is too thick, thin it out with some more cream or milk or chicken stock before serving.
You can also grill the chicken first and keep it warm... then proceed to make the sauce...
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Marinating the chicken in yoghurt...
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Masala sauce before adding cream...
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Adding cream...
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Adding the chicken...
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Finishing the dish..
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Very good. Best when the chicken is grilled.
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Delicious! The sauce was so yummy
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A fantastic recipe, great flavours, not too overpowering but definitely has some kick.
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Was delicious! Will totally make again!
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I've been looking for a good recipe and I think this one is great! It is time consuming but the flavors are delicious!
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Amazing
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its awesome
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I've prepared it many times and always excellent. Thank yoi for the great recipe!
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If you like a curry with a lot of sauce, consider making a 1.5-2.0 batch of the masala sauce. Otherwise, the only thing I change in this recipe is the addition of hot sauce. This is a great tikka, lots of flavor.
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This was sooooo good! Will make it again and again! I think I actually convinced my family I can cook with this one!
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Love this recipe!! Tastes great! Worth the long process!!
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Made it with soy yogurt and milk and it still was great. Will make agian for sure!
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My husband I always went to our favorite Indian place for this dish. Now we can enjoy it at home!! I made a few changes: I added tomato sauce instead of diced tomatoes and I used chile powder instead of green chokes.
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By far my new favorite Indian recipe!!! The only thing I did different was, I cut the chicken into 1 inch pieces before putting it into the fridge for the night. Because of the additional surface area presented by doing so...I doubled the spices and garlic/ginger for that step. Then I baked the entire mixture with the yogurt in the oven until cooked through.
I also added some black pepper to the spice mixture from th first part of the recipe.
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This turned out great. We will be making this again for sure.
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