Chicken Tika Masala

Here we have one of my favorite meals. It takes a bit longer than a quick meal but it is worth the wait. For the best curry dish always use fresh meat, i use chicken thighs for this as i they have the best flavor and you do not end up with dry chicken in your curry. The chicken cost around £1.96 for six pieces, three you will use for the curry and the rest you can freeze. The rice and the sauce are around 55p each. The sauce is ready made from ASDA and the rice is just your standard boiled rice.

Right, the first thing that you want to do is to get a frying pan nice and not with some oil in the bottom. While that is warming up you need to cut your chicken in pieces. To do this you have to take the thigh bone out and what you want to do is turn the chicken over, slit down either side of the bone and then cut it out. Make sure that you get all of the bone pieces out, you don't want that in there.

Once you have gutted all of your chicken thighs you have to cut them into pieces and you want to keep the skins on. If you cannot stand the skin of the chicken at all then it will pull of easy. Your hands will get messy when you do this so make sure after you wash them and do not touch your eyes or mouth while you do this bit.

Then when you have done that put the chicken into the frying pan and cook on a medium to high heat until the chicken has gone brown. It doesn't matter if some of it gets burned it all adds to the flavor. When it is brown all you want to do then is put the chicken into a saucepan and make sure some of the fat juice goes in too. Then you want to add your tikka masala. However, do not use the whole jar just for yourself there will be too much sauce, i use around half and that way it last longer too.You want to cook for 20 minutes and make sure the chicken it cooked.

Stir every now and then to make sure none of the chicken or the sauce gets burned to the bottom of the pan. To cook the rice all you need to do is add boiling water and stir. Make sure that you do not add too much and follow the instructions on the packet some are different from others. If your a cheat like me you'll get the microwave rice that take too minutes and never turns out bad. It cost a bit more around a pound a packet but i think that it is worth it.

Then serve it up! Put the rice on the plate first then pour the curry onto the rice and you should have something that looks like the picture above. It tastes great and is very filling. This can be done for yourselves or a group of you if you all wanted to chip in.