Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken tikka masala. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Tikka Masala is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Tikka Masala is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken tikka masala using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
- Get 2 tbls butter or ghee
- Make ready 1 onion, finally chopped
- Prepare 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
- Prepare 1/2 yellow bell pepper, chopped
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1 tbls ground cumin
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tsp ground ginger
- Take 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/4 tsp tumeric
- Make ready 1 can (14 oz) tomato sauce
- Prepare 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Take 2 tsp paprika
- Prepare 1 tbls white sugar
- Prepare 1 tbls vegetable oil
- Get 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
- Make ready 1/2 tsp curry powder
- Take 1/2 tsp salt, or to taste (optional)
- Take 1 tsp white sugar, or to taste (optional)
- Get Chopped cilantro (optional)
Instructions to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
- Heat butter or ghee in a large skillet over medium heat and cook onion, peppers until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Heat vegetable oil in a separate skillet over medium heat. Stir chicken into hot oil, sprinkle with curry powder and sear chicken until lightly browned but still pink inside, about 3 minutes, stir often.
- Stir in garlic, and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in cumin, 1 tsp salt, ginger, cayenne, cinnamon and tumeric, fry until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in tomato sauce, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Simmer sauce for 10 minutes, then mix in cream, paprika and 1 tbls sugar. Bring sauce back to a simmer and cook, stirring often, until sauce has thickened, 10-15 minutes.
- Transfer chicken and any pan juices Into the sauce. Simmer chicken in sauce until no longer pink. About 30 minutes. Adjust salt and sugar to taste.
- Serve over basmati or jasmine rice. Top with chopped cilantro.
- Note: sugar is optional in this recipe. The bell peppers (to me) add enough sweetness. You can also adjust the cayenne level to your liking. The heavy cream really tames down the heat.
- Enjoy!!
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