Chicken tikka masala

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Originally from BBC Good food Chicken Tikka recipe

Chicken tikka masala - serves 2

Ingredients

• 1 medium onion.
• 2 large garlic cloves.
• thumb-sized piece of ginger.
• 15ml tbsp rapeseed oil.
• 2 small skinless chicken breasts, cut into chunks.
• 15ml Tikka spice powder.
• 2½ml cayenne pepper.
• 227g can chopped tomatoes.
• 20g ground almonds.
• 100g spinach.
• 23ml fat-free natural yogurt.
• 1ml coriander, chopped.

NB powdered garlic and mint!! Cayenne pepper

Directions

(It is worth measuring out the ingredients before hand, as this all happens very quickly.)

1. If serving with brown rice, start the water boiling and add the rice. Set the timer for 25 minutes.
2. Process ginger, garlic and onion in processor to make a paste.
3. Fry freshly made onion paste for 15 minutes.
   (Or make Onion Garlic and Ginger paste, you can keep this for a day if need be to make things easier).
4. Fry chicken for for 5 - 7 minutes until brown.
5. Stir in tikka spice and cayenne pepper.
6. Tip in onion paste and tomatoes, bring to the boil.
7. Stir in almonds and spinach cook for 10 minutes. Take off the heat.
8. Season then stir in yoghurt and coriander.

Serve with brown rice.

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