Tikka Masala

Ingredients

1 boneless chicken or 800 grams of boneless chicken breasts or thighs according to taste

½ lemon squeezed

1 fresh ginger

½ teaspoon ground pepper, if you like good spicy add 1 whole scoop

You can buy the great massala or you prepare the spice blends, before you have to toast cinnamon, bay leaf, cardamom, coriander, cumin, nutmeg and black pepper.

2 tablespoons oil

4 cloves of garlic

For massala sauce

1 can of tomato sauce

200 grams of yogurt

4 roasted garlic

3 fresh garlic

½ teaspoon chili

100ml cococ

50 grams of butter

4 tablespoons of chickpea flour

2 onions

Marinate the chicken in a mixture of fresh chopped garlic, the ginger, squeezed lemon and chili (all this ground in the grinder and reserve a tablespoon of the mixture), is left in the fridge for about 4 hours covered with film transparent.

Prepare the spices, roasted in the oven, then go through the grinder and mortar. Laurel cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, cumin, nutmeg and black pepper used.

Put the feud to melt the butter, add the chickpea flour mixed with two tablespoons of yogurt and a dash of oil and spices, mixes and put the marinated chicken and cover again and leave to marinate overnight.

Saute chopped onions with salt and the settled tablespoon of the mixture of ginger and garlic, you add the tomatoes and scoop of spices prepared great marssala or 10 minutes. While handles the chicken pieces on the grill, when you are short pieces of a snack.

Add the remaining yogurt and coconut milk, mix well and add the chicken and a few bits of butter. Serve.

                                                                                                         Rafael Popescu