Recipe of Chicken Tikka masala

This mouthwatering chicken dish adds flavour to you lunch as side dish.

Ingredients to marinate:

* Marinate for about 1 hour
* Chicken - 500 gms of boneless chicken
* Ginger & garlic paste - 4 tsp
* Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
* chilli powder - 1 tsp
* garam masala - 1 tsp
* Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
* dhaniya powder - 1 tsp
* Salt to taste
* Curd - 1/2 cup beaten well


To Marinate the chicken

• Take the beaten curd and mix all the above powders together and add salt
• Cut the chicken into medium size pieces and add it to the curd mixture, close the vessel with a lid and let it to marinate for about an hour.

For the Gravy

Ingredients:

* Onion - 1 chopped
* Tomato puree - out of one small tomato
* Ginger & garlic paste - 2 tsp
* Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
* Coriander powder - 2 tsp
* Ginger & garlic paste - 1 tsp
* Salt to taste
* Oil - 8 tsp
* garam masala powder - 2 tsp
* Coriander leaves
* Ground almond - 2 tsp (optional)
* Fresh Cream is optional to garnish


Method

For the chicken

• After the chicken is marinated, take them and bake them well in a pan with the flame very low in the stove or we you can put the chicken on the grill and cook it till they are cooked

For the gravy:

• Heat oil in a pan, fry onions till they turn golden brown.
• Add ginger & garlic paste and let them fry till the oil separates
• Then add all the masala powders to it, and then add the tomato puree.
• Add salt to taste and then add little warm water and the ground almond paste its optional to add nd let the gravy to come to a boil.
• Then add the cooked chicken pieces, and let the gravy come to a boil after adding the chicken pieces.
• Remove the dish from the stove and add the coriander leaves, and the cream (optional ) to garnish