Chicken Tikka

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This was our first Christmas together. So I decided to throw a small party for few close friends.Tanmaya loves grilled food and tandoori, so I decided to try grilled Chicken Tikka.

It is traditionally baked skewers with small pieces of chicken, usually boneless, in a clay based oven called tandoor, after marinating in spices and yogurt. But of course here we don't have the option of tandoor so we would cook it in convectional oven.

Ingredients:
  1. Chicken thigh meat (boneless ) : 4 lbs
  2. Red Chili Powder : 2 tbsp
  3. Coriander Powder : 2 tbsp
  4. Cumin Powder : 2 tbsp
  5. Kasturi Methi : 2 tbsp
  6. Ginger Garlic Paste : 2 tbsp
  7. Cooking Oil : 2 tbsp
  8. Garam Masals Powder : 1 tbsp
  9. Salt : to taste
  10. Curd : 3/4 curd
  11. Food color
  12. Onion : 2 large
  13. Green Bell Pepper : 3 (one can always use red and yellow pepper to add more color)
Process:

Clean the chicken and cut it in to small cubes. Mix all the spices along with lemon juice and oil. Cut the onions and pepper into medium sized cubes. Add chicken cubes, and vegetables to the mixture.

Mix well and then keep the chicken & vegetables in this marinade for about 2 hours in the refrigerator. Set the oven on broiling mode at high.

Put the chicken and other vegetables on to skewers and brush it with oil to make sure that the chicken isn't too dry at the end. Cook in oven for about 20 minutes, keep basting the chicken pieces with butter and cook until slightly colored and cooked.

Remove and serve hot sprinkled with chaat masala.
Now thats the easy and quick way, but Tanmaya wanted to use his new electric grill, so instead of cooking in the oven for the complete 20 mins, I removed the skewers from the oven and cooked for another 10 - 15 mins over the grill.
We had a blast that night with friends, music , dance, cocktails and yummy food :)

Give it a shot and let me know

Happy Blogging
Rakhee

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