Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken tikka masala. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken tikka masala using 31 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
- Get Chicken Marinade
- Take 8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed of excess fat
- Make ready 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
- Take Juice of half a lemon, about 1 tbsp
- Prepare 2 garlic cloves, minced
- Prepare 1 " piece of ginger, minced
- Prepare 2 tsp garam masala
- Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
- Get 1 tsp paprika
- Take 1 tsp ground cumin
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp kosher salt
- Take Sauce
- Prepare 4 tbsp unsalted butter
- Take 1 medium sweet onion, minced
- Take 2 small jalapeños, seeds removed and minced
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 2 " piece of ginger, minced
- Make ready 2 tsp garam masala
- Make ready 2 tsp ground cumin
- Prepare 1 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 1 tsp ground coriander
- Get 1 tsp paprika
- Get 1/8 tsp cayenne
- Make ready 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- Prepare 1/2 cup chicken broth
- Get 1.5 tbsp tomato paste
- Prepare 23 oz tomato sauce
- Get 1 tsp brown sugar
- Prepare 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Make ready Chopped fresh cilatro, for garnishing
Steps to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
- Marinate and Prepare the Chicken:
- Combine all marinade ingredients (except chicken) and mix well. Add chicken thighs and toss well to coat. Cover and marinate at least 1 hour and up to 5 hours.
- When ready to cook chicken, place a rack inside a foil-lined, rimmed cookie sheet. Turn broiler on high, and move oven rack to 6"-8" (second level for my oven) from heating element.
- Remove thighs and shake off excess marinade. Place on rack, not touching. Place in oven under broiler.
- Remove sheet from oven when top has a nice char and looks mostly dry. Flip chicken pieces and char the other side. Roughly chop chicken and set aside while you prepare the sauce.
- Prepare the Sauce:
- Mix all dry spices together up to kosher salt, set aside.
- Melt butter over medium-high heat in a non-reactive pot (no cast iron) until starting to foam.
- Add jalapeños and sautee one minute. Add onions and sautee, stirring frequently until onions start to soften. Approximately 3-4 minutes.
- Add garlic and ginger, sautee until fragrant, approximately 1 minute.
- Add dry spice mix and stir constantly until fragrant, 30 seconds.
- Add tomato paste and sautee until well mixed.
- Add chicken broth to deglaze pot and reduce heat to medium.
- Add tomato sauce and stir well. Add brown sugar and mix well. Taste at this point and salt to taste if necessary. If sauce is very thin (does not coat the spoon well), simmer a little longer to thicken.
- Add chopped chicken, stir and cover. Let flavors combine for 5 minutes.
- Add heavy whipping cream, stir well but do no let simmer after adding cream. Warm through and remove from heat once hot.
- Serve with basmati rice, warm naan bread and garnish with cilantro.
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