chicken tikka recipe | without oven or tandoor
Chicken tikka is a dry chicken starter and a snack recipe as well which can be eaten as a starter and can be made on a pan without any tandoor...
Ingredients
- 250 gms boneless chicken pieces
- 1 cup beaten yogurt
- salt - to taste
- 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- ¼ teaspoon garam masala powder
- ¼ teaspoon crushed kasoori methi
- 1 tablespoon lemon extract
- 1 teaspoon edible oil
- ¼ teaspoon red food color
- 2 onions cut into cubes
- 1 green capsicum cut into cubes
- 2 to matoes deseeded and cut into cubes
- 2 tablespoon oil for shallow frying
Other ingredients:
- Satay sticks/kabab sticks or wooden skewers for stringing chicken and diced veggies
For garnishing:
- lemon wedges
- freshly chopped coriander leaves
- onion rings
Instructions
- Firstly, take a bowl, into it, add beaten yogurt, salt to taste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste, garam masala powder.
- Add kasoori methi, lemon extract, edible oil, food color.
- Mix all the ingredients well and mix without any lumps in the batter.
- Add the boneless chicken pieces into it.
- Give a mix.
- Add the onion cubes, green capsicum cubes, diced tomatoes, mix all the ingredients well.
- Cover the marinade with a lid.
- Marinate the chicken for at least 30 minutes to 1 hour in refrigerator.
- Take the chicken marinade out.
- Take satay sticks or kabab sticks, soak the sticks for about 30 minutes before using in order to avoid burning.
- Take each stick, make a string of tomato, onion, green capsicum and chicken.
- Continue stringing tomato, onion, capsicum and chicken to the rest of the chicken sticks in the same pattern.
- Take a non stick pan, add 2 tablespoon oil and heat it.
- Place the chicken sticks on the pan.
- Cook for 6-8 minutes on medium flame.
- Turn the chicken tikka sticks and cook the other side too for 6-8 minutes.
- Keep turning and cook each side for 4-5 minutes on low flame until each side of the chicken is cooked well.
- When all the sides of the chicken tikka sticks are done well, switch off the flame.
- Take them out and serve them on a plate.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves, onion rings and lemon wedges.
- Enjoy as a starter.
Notes
1. One can even brush some melted butter to the chicken tikka pieces while serving which gives a shiny look to the tikka.
2 Marinating the chicken for a long time helps in infusing all the flavors into the chicken while cooking.
3. One does not require tandoor or oven to make it and can be easily cooked on a pan.
2 Marinating the chicken for a long time helps in infusing all the flavors into the chicken while cooking.
3. One does not require tandoor or oven to make it and can be easily cooked on a pan.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
chicken tikka recipe | without oven or tandoor
Amount Per Serving
Calories 615
Calories from Fat 4392
% Daily Value*
Fat 488g751%
Saturated Fat 107g669%
Trans Fat 2g
Cholesterol 120mg40%
Carbohydrates 12g4%
Fiber 3g13%
Sugar 6g7%
Protein 200g400%
Vitamin C 275mg333%
Calcium 971mg97%
Iron 70mg389%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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