Recipe of Chicken Tikka masala

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

Ingredients to marinate:

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:

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