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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Chicken Tikka Masala

The chicken tikka masala is not a typical Indian dish, but it is clearly the world's most popular curry. It seems that the chicken tikka masala was created between 1950 and 1970 by a person from India immigrated to the UK. However, there is no standard recipe for Indian chicken tikka masala. The one common ingredient in all Indian recipes is chicken. The sauce usually contains tomato, single cream or cream of coconut and many spices. The sauce is often colored orange or red with food coloring.

The main ingredients to cook a chicken tikka masala is chicken marinated in spices and yogurt and cooked in a tandoor oven, with gravy masala ("mixture of spices"). Other dishes such as chicken tikka masala replaced by lamb, or fish.