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
- 2.5ml 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.)
- If serving with brown rice, start the water boiling and add the rice. Set the timer for 25 minutes.
- Process ginger, garlic and onion in processor to make a paste.
- 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). - Fry chicken for for 5 - 7 minutes until brown.
- Stir in tikka spice and cayenne pepper.
- Tip in onion paste and tomatoes, bring to the boil.
- Stir in almonds and spinach cook for 10 minutes. Take off the heat.
- Season then stir in yoghurt and coriander.
Serve with brown rice.
