Chicken Malai Tikka Recipe | How to make Chicken Malai Tikka
Delicious recipe for Chicken Malai Tikka Kebabs marinated in mild spices and then grilled in an air fryer, oven or pan-fried.
Ingredients
Chicken Malai Tikka Kebab Ingredients
- 250 grams Boneless chicken breast
- 8 - 10 Almonds, blanched
- 3 - 4 Green chillies
- 5 - 6 Garlic cloves
- 1 inch Ginger
- 2 tbsp Cream Cheese or Cheese Spread or Cheese cube
- ½ cup Yoghurt (hung)
- 2 tbsp Cream
- ¼ tsp Pepper powder
- ½ tsp Nutmeg & Mace powder
- ¼ tsp Cardamom powder
- Juice of half a lemon
- Salt to taste
Instructions
How to make Chicken Malai Tikka
- Wash and drain the chicken breast and cut into desired cubes. Add salt and lemon juice and set aside for 10 minutes.
- In a blender or processor add almonds, chillies, ginger, garlic and grind to a smooth paste.
- Add this paste to the chicken pieces and mix well. Add hung yoghurt, cream cheese, fresh cream, pepper, cardamom, nutmeg and mace powders. Mix well and marinate overnight or at least for 3 - 4 hours in the refrigerator. Adjust salt.
- Put the chicken pieces into a skewer and pan-fry them till done. Alternatively, you can air-fry the chicken malai kebabs in a pre-heated air-fryer for 10 minutes. Baste with melted butter. Do not overcook the kebabs. Serve kebabs with mint chutney.
Notes
- If you do not have skewers just place them on a fry-pan or grill pan and cook till done.
- If using cheese cube, grind this along with the almonds, chillies, ginger and garlic.
- Pre-heat the air-fryer before placing the skewers in the air-fryer basket.
- Do not over-cook the kebabs.
- Serve with mint chutney or roll them in a chapati for a quick snack.
- Marinate the chicken kebabs for 3 to 4 hours or overnight for best results.