Low Calorie – Chicken Tikka Masala
Description
Chicken tikka masala (low calorie) works best if made with proper tandoori style chicken. A very popular curry masala dish for it's creamy, buttery and sweet taste. Buttery flavour comes naturally after a good use of ground almonds and obviously a little hint of sugar or use of artificial sweetner helps the dish to have a mild sweet taste. For creamy texture, using fat free yoghurt after whisking will bring that smoothness.Â
Ingredients
Instructions
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In a frying pan, heat the cooking oil.Â
over a medium high flame -
Add ginger garlic paste and fry for about 30-40 seconds.Â
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Add ground almonds as well as coconut flour and stir constantly for another 20 seconds
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Add the remaining spices and mix well with almonds and coconut flour mixture
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Once all mixed up, pour in tomoto purée as well as the base sauce.
increase the flame to high so the sauce comes to a simmer -
Stir in tandoori chicken and heat through for another few minutes.
fresh chicken in raw form will require about 5 minutes simmering in the same sauce to cook it thorough -
Add in sugar (if using) once the meat is cooked properly and thoroughly
reduce the high heat to medium -
Pour yoghurt, and if you're using food colouring, mix that in now
squeeze in fresh lemon and garnish coriander (if you want)! -
For great aromatic and authentic Pakistani flavour, add dried fenugreek leaves
rub fenugreek leaves in your palms and sprinkle -
Add garam masala and garnish with coriander.
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