Chicken Tikka Recipe

The word tikka means bits, pieces or chunks. Chicken tikka is an easy - to - cook dish in which chunks are marinated in special spices and then grilled it... The yogurt helps tenderize the chicken, the ginger garlic, and spices in the marinade infuse it with lots of flavor..The chicken chunks are traditionally made in tandoor oven..   

Chicken tikka is an authentic punjabi starter dish and it is delicious recipe of chicken..Chicken tikka can also be made into chicken tikka masala, a tasty gravy dish.. The main thing you should remember is the chicken should marinated over night so the flavour went deep into the it.. You could let it maginated upto 1 day...

Hot chicken tikka with a squeeze of lemon juice taste like heaven...My mouth is watering when i made this recipe....ok ok anyway here you go for the recipe..

INGREDIENTS :

Boneless chicken-1/2 kg

FOR MARINATE :

Ginger garlic paste-2 spn
Chilli powder-3 spn
Gram masala powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Lemon-1/2
Thick yogurd- 2 tbspn
Red food colour- 2 pinch
Oil - 2 tbspn
Salt to taste
Butter to base the chicken

METHOD:

• In a bowl take ginger garlic paste,and all the spices (i mention in the ingredients)
• Then add food colour,lemon, yogurd and oil.
• Wash the chicken well and add on it
• Mix evenly and let this maginate in the fridge over night...
• Preheat the oven to the highest temperature... 200 degree f. 
• Take the chicken out from the fridge before 30 mins that it comes to room temperature and cooks evently..
• Arrange it in a foil lined tray..
• Place it on the baking rrack and bake it for 10 mins.
• After 10 mins, take the tray out.. Turn the chicken over and base it with butter and place it on the oven..
• Cook the chicken for 10 mins untill the chicken is cooked. 
• Take it out  again brush it with butter and place it on the grill mode for 10 mins.
• When the chicken is cooked and gets a little chared around the edges..
• Remove this and serve hot with lemon wedges or sliced carrot..

PICTORIAL :

Take your chicken and cut into medium pieces

Add ginger garlic paste

Chilli powder and salt

Red food colour

Add in gram masala powder

Add in lemon juice

Then thick yogurt 

Add oil

Mix well.. let maginate over night

Arrange it in foil lined tray

Bake it for 10 mins

After 10 mins Flip over

Apply butter

Then again bake it for 10 mins

Again add in butter and grill for 10 mins

Now its done

Now plate it up..

It looks delicious...