Chicken tikka

Name: Chicken tikka
Yield: Serves 4 as a starter
Ingredients: 500g boneless chicken thighs, with skin; 30g fresh root ginger; 10g garlic (2-3 cloves); 10g green chillies (2-3); 30ml rice vinegar; 1 tsp deggi mirch chilli powder; 1 tsp ground turmeric; 1 ½ tsp fine sea salt; 2 tsp granulated sugar; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 25g unsalted butter, melted; Lime wedges

Chicken Tikka Masala is supposedly Britain’s favourite dish. If it’s yours, then you may be disappointed: this Dishoom dish is not it.

By Arun Tilak

17 January 2025

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Tikka simply means piece or chunk - so this is chicken pieces, marinated then grilled. The marinade is based on sweet vinegar, not yoghurt - and there’s not a drop of food colouring in sight.

It makes a nice starter, or delicious lunch in a chapati roll.

Modelled on the old Irani cafés of Bombay – which were a meeting place for people from all backgrounds and cultures to share stories over chai – Dishoom burst onto the London restaurant scene in 2010 and its popularity hasn’t waned a jot since.

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