Chicken Tikka

Ingredients

• Chicken Breast/ Boneless Chicken -1 lb(cut into bite size pieces)
• Onion, Coloured Bell Peppers,Tomato (diced) - 1 cup (optional)
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Cayenne pepper - 1 tsp
• Chilli flakes - 1/2 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
• Yogurt - 1 Cup
• Cashew nuts - 2 tbsp (crushed)
• Lemon -1/2 (juiced)
• Cilantro (finely chopped) - 2 tbsp
• Red color - few drops(optional)
• Oil - 1 tblsp

Method

• Mix all the ingredients under marination except chicken and veggies to form a paste.
• Now add the marination to the chicken pieces and veggies to coat it .
• Let it marinate for atleast 3 hours in refrigerator (increased marination time gives soft chicken with all masala taste).
• Take bamboo skewers and soak in water for 1/2 hour.
• Preheat oven to 300F.
• Grease a baking dish with few drops of olive oil and spread the marinate chicken pieces and veggie pieces on it.
• Bake it for 10 minutes and flip the chicken pieces and again bake for 10 minutes(to evenly cook the chicken)
• Now take the baking dish out from oven and place the chicken and veggies in skewers(use paper towel to handle chicken if its very hot).
• Now place the skewers in the oven at 350F for another 10 minutes(this gives the flavor and taste like in tandoori).
• .Now serve the yummy tikka by sprinkling few drops of lemon juice as a snack.

Tips

• You can also grill the tikka on a stove top griddle if you do not have oven.
• If you dont have skewers just place it in a baking sheet in the rack above heating rod (check that it does not get burnt)