My chopping board and a little spice: Chicken Tikka Kebab in Wooden Skewers (Microwave and Tawa version)

Chicken Tikka Kebab is one of those items which I make sure that I eat whenever I get the chance to order the starter J. I just blindly love it and I am sure, many of you love this too. Today, I am presenting the authentic Chicken Tikka Kebab Recipe in pictorial format. I have made it both in microwave and tawa, so if you do not have a microwave, not to worry, there is a tawa version too.

Chicken Tikka Kebab

Ingredients:

Part 1# Bone less chicken cubes 15-18 pieces. Capsicum, tomatoes (remove the pulp) and onions cut into cubes.

Fresh vegetables cut in cubes

Part 2# 2 tbsp gram flour, 1 tbsp butter, 5 tbsp curd, 1 tbsp ginger garlic chilli paste, 1 tsp aamchur powder, salt to taste, turmeric powder and food colour.

Part 3# Coriander, saunf, black pepper, cloves, cumin, cardamom. All whole spices roasted and made into powder.

Part 4# Butter and lemon juice 2 tbsp. Wooden skewers as per need.

Stage 1 # Take all the ingredients except Part # 1 in a bowl, mix it well. Then add all the ingredients of Part 1 # and mix all very well so that every chicken piece gets coated with the masala and the vegetables too. Refrigerate for minimum 2- 5 hours. If possible, do it for overnight.

Marinate the chicken atleast for 2 - 5 hours.

Stage 2 # In a bottle put the wooden skewers and fill it up with normal water. Keep the skewers soaked in it for atleast 30 minutes, no harm if you overdo it.

Soak for minimum 30 minutes.

Stage 3 # Take out the refrigerated chicken. Add the lemon juice and mix it well. Keep it in the room temperature for atleast 30 minutes.

Add lemon juice after taking the chicken out from fridge and keep it in room temperature for atleast 30 minutes.

Stage 4 # Take a skewer, pin up a capsicum piece, then onion, then tomato and then finally a chicken piece. Repeat the process for three times so that a single stick contains three to four pieces of chicken and other vegetables. Apply the same procedure for all the wooden skewers.

Arrange the chicken pieces and vegetables in the skewers.

Stage 5 #

Microwave Mode: Take the microwave grill plate and grease it with some butter. Put up the kebab sticks carefully one by one. Put the whole grill plate on a microwave safe plate so that the juices coming out from the kebab do not make your microwave dirty.

Put it in the microwave and cook it in full power for 10 minutes. Then set it in microwave and grill combination mode and cook for another 20 minutes. Do not forget to turn those over in between and to add some butter.

Microwave Mode

Tawa Mode: Take a flat pan which has a proper lid, apply some butter. Place the pan on the gas, arrange the sticks in it but make sure that you do not over crowd it. Cover the pan. Turn on the flame and keep it in the low flame. Let it remain like this for atleast 10 minutes. Then turn it over and apply some butter on the kebabs and close the lid once again and let it cook for another 15-20 minutes on the lowest flame.