Chicken Tikka Masala

Ingredients:

• Chicken 1/2 kg
• Onion 2 medium
• Tomato 1 medium
• Ginger 1/4 tsp(chopped)
• Garlic 1/2 tsp(chopped)
• Curd 2 tbsp
• Ginger paste 1/4 tsp
• Garlic paste 1/4 tsp
• Lime juice 2 tsp
• Garam masala 1/4 tsp
• Chilly powder 2 tsp
• Pepper powder 1/4 tsp
• Coconut milk 1/2 cup( thick)
• Salt
• Oil

Clean and cut chicken into small pieces. Marinate the chicken with ginger-garlic paste, curd, lime juice and salt for 1/2 to 1 hour. Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the chicken. Add sliced onion, ginger, garlic and tomato into the same oil and saute well until the onion turns light brown colour. Add the 3 powders and salt into it and mix well. After cooling down grind it into a fine paste using thick coconut milk. Transfer this paste into a kadai and saute well. Add the chicken pieces and little water into this gravy and cook well.

Courtesy : Eastern Cookery Show ( Asianet)

The snap from this post is one of my final entry to the Magnificent Click Contest 2009.

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