How to make Awara-style Chicken Tikka over the coals

Posted on 27 September 2022

Cape Town’s Awara restaurant specialises in fusion-style, gourmet Asian grills, spanning Indian, Korean, Thai, Japanese and Chinese cuisine.

READ: Cape Town’s Awara is a mouth-watering melting pot of Asian cuisine

Their popular Chicken Tikka is extremely flavourful, with a kick of spice. It is usually cooked inside a traditional tandoor clay oven, but Awara has kindly adapted their recipe so that you can make this delicious dish over the coals at home (or under the grill if you don’t have a braai)!

Ingredients:

500g Boneless chicken, cubed

80g Kashmiri red chilli powder

50g Jeera (cumin) powder

100g Kasoori methi (fenugreek) powder

30g Ginger & garlic paste

200g Double thick plain yoghurt

200ml Lemon juice

100ml Mustard oil

Salt

Method:

In a bowl, rub ginger & garlic paste onto chicken. Add salt to taste, half the chilli powder, all the lemon juice and mix. Refrigerate for 1 hour. In a different bowl, mix the yoghurt, more salt and the rest of the chilli powder. Add jeera, kasoori methi and mustard oil and stir. Add the chicken and mix well. Place chicken pieces onto skewers and grill on a barbeque or braai until the chicken is cooked through but tender. Serve immediately.

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