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This recipe usually requires the use of an oven, however this recipe assumes that you do not have access to an oven and this can be made using a gas stove top. Of course, you can use the same recipe for oven cooked Chicken Tikka. Leave out steps 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 and place the marinated chicken in the oven to medium temperature, using a medium sized oven dish and allow to cook for maximum 45 minutes, turning the chicken pieces over half way through cooking. After you have fried the onions and tomatoes, place on top of the chicken and allow to simmer in the over for about 15 minutes.
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1. Combine all ingredients together, apart from the onions and the tomatoes, salt and the chicken
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2. Once all the ingredients are combined, mix in the chicken and the salt into the yoghurt marinade and then refrigerate for a minimum 2 hours. If you have more time, allow to marinade overnight
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3. Use a clean medium sized steel wok type pan and place the marinated chicken pieces directly into the pan over a VERY LOW gas. Place the lid on top, and allow to cook for around half and hour or 45 minutes, checking every ten-fifteen minutes and turning over the pieces of chicken once during the cooking cycle.
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4. Allow the chicken to cook into its own juices, do not add any water, otherwise this will ruin the recipe. The yoghurt marinade will also yield water. Allow to cook. Its very important that the gas is left to its lowest, otherwise the chicken will burn
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5. Once the chicken has been cooked, remove the pieces of chicken from the wok and place into a dish. Keep the left over water that the chicken was cooking in, and place in a cup. You will need it later.
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6. In a separate frying pan, fry the onions until a golden brown and then add the tomatoes. Allow the tomatoes to cook, until its juices start to run.
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7. Use a different flat fry pan and place on a medium-high gas. Place the cooked chicken pieces on the pan and allow to dry fry, like you would on a BBQ. Dry fry until the pieces of chicken become a golden brown, but not burnt.
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8. Whilst the Chicken is dry frying, sparingly add the water left over from cooking earlier and add the cooked tomatoes and onion on top and allow to fry together, to make the chicken succulent
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Raita:
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Combine all the ingredients together and place in the fridge.
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Serve the Chicken Tikka pieces together with Raita Yoghurt and nan bread, or with Basmati plain boiled rice. Enjoy!
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