Baked Coconut Hen Tikka Masala.

Easy, one pan Baked Coconut Hen Tikka Masala. Indian-inspired tikka masala made with quite a lot of spices and creamy coconut milk. This dish has simply the correct quantity of spice and cream, plus it’s crammed with warming Indian-inspired flavors. Made within the oven, in only one pan, in beneath an hour. It has a wealthy and creamy butter sauce that’s so flavorful. Serve this creamy masala hen over bowls of basmati rice with golden turmeric chili butter and cucumber ginger salad.

When I’ve household I’m cooking for, an Indian-inspired dish is all the time on the desk as an choice. I realized just a few years in the past that my brothers adore butter hen, hen curry, and something with harissa sauce.

They love a bit spicy! I make my butter hen recipe all the time, however Hen Tikka Masala all the time will get forgetten about. Actually, the 2 dishes are very related. Usually butter hen is sweeter with much less spice and fewer tomato. Hen Tikka is normally is a bit spicy with a chunkier sauce and extra tomato.

I make my butter hen fairly spicy, so that they find yourself being an analogous. BUT this Hen Tikka is exclusive, it’s not conventional.

I bake the hen and the sauce within the oven. It’s fully no fuss. In return you get a wealthy, creamy sauce. This might not be simpler!

I like to serve this Hen Tikka Masala over rice, with naan, a cucumber salad, and home made tumeric chili butter. It’s all so good!

These are the main points

Hen Components 

• small hen breast or thighs
• plain Greek Yogurt

• recent grated ginger, or use pickled ginger

• garam masala, turmeric, cayenne pepper

• tomato paste

• salted butter

• onions

• canned coconut milk

• sesame seeds

• steamed rice and naan, for serving

Cucumber Salad Components

Turmeric Butter Components

• salted butter
• chili flakes
• turmeric

I do know this appears like a number of elements, however I promise it’s going to come collectively shortly!

Particular Instruments

Only a nice baking dish, bowl, and small skillet.

Steps

Step 1: season the hen

I exploit a mixture of boneless, skinless hen thighs and breasts. Make sure that the hen is evenly sized to forestall totally different cooking instances.

In a baking dish, toss the hen with Greek yogurt and all of those spices: garam masala, cumin, turmeric, cayenne, garlic, and ginger.

You may marinate the hen for half-hour, or if in case you have time, in a single day within the fridge. Ideally, in a single day, however I just about by no means do and the hen remains to be nice!

Step 2: – add every part else

Now add the onions, the tomato paste, and the coconut milk. Organize the chilly butter slices over the hen and add the sesame seeds.

Begin baking. I don’t normally stir the hen through the baking course of. Simply bake for half-hour, and it must be simply good!

Step 3: the cucumber salad

That is fairly simple however so scrumptious. Cucumbers with sushi-style ginger, cilantro, jalapeños, and lemon juice.

Step 4: the turmeric butter

I combined up a fast turmeric butter utilizing butter, chili flakes, and turmeric. It makes the dish only a contact extra particular. Plus further sauce and spice are all the time welcome with my household.

Step 5: serve

First, I make rice, then the hen tikka, after which the sauce. Subsequent comes the cucumber salad. I then spoon over further tikka sauce and add that turmeric butter.

And I all the time end with naan. I prefer to squish it into the rice and add a sprinkle of recent cilantro. Oh, lemon juice could be nice too.

Completely DELICIOUS!

In search of different Indian-inspired dinners? Listed below are my favorites: 

30 Minute Spicy Indian Butter Hen

30 Minute Butter Hen Meatballs

Tremendous Easy Coconut Hen Tikka Masala

Gingery Coconut Candy Potato and Rice Stew with Chili Oil

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