Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chicken tikka masala. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Tikka Masala is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Tikka Masala is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken tikka masala using 21 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tikka Masala:
- Make ready 2 tbls butter or ghee
- Make ready 1 onion, finally chopped
- Get 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
- Make ready 1/2 yellow bell pepper, chopped
- Take 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Get 1 tbls ground cumin
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/4 tsp tumeric
- Take 1 can (14 oz) tomato sauce
- Get 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Prepare 2 tsp paprika
- Get 1 tbls white sugar
- Prepare 1 tbls vegetable oil
- Get 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
- Take 1/2 tsp curry powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt, or to taste (optional)
- Get 1 tsp white sugar, or to taste (optional)
- Take Chopped cilantro (optional)
Steps 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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