North Indian
Chicken Tikka Masala
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Chicken Tikka Masala is North Indian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Marinate the chicken in the yogurt with half the garam masala, cumin, turmeric, ginger, and garlic for at least 20 minutes.
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Sear the chicken in a hot skillet until charred at the edges, about 6 minutes, then set aside.
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Melt the butter in the pan and cook the onion until soft, 6 minutes, then add the remaining spices, ginger, and garlic and cook 1 minute.
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Stir in the crushed tomatoes and simmer 10 minutes, then blend smooth if you like.
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Add the cream and the seared chicken and simmer until the chicken is cooked and the sauce is rich, about 12 minutes.
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Serve over basmati rice cooked according to the package.
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Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Tikka Masala, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Tikka Masala carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 700 kcal
- Protein
- 44 g
- Carbs
- 31 g
- Fat
- 44 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 22 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Tikka Masala takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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