Cooking: Locky's Indian Chicken Tikka

Locky's Indian Chicken Tikka
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(Sorry vegetarians. This is going to be an article on meat cooking, but just a point of information, I have vegetarian lunch almost every day.)

Love Indian Chicken Tikka? Want to cook one as good as I can? Today's your lucky day. Here's what you need to buy.

Spices that you need
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Wine and soya sauce
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• Chicken legs, preferably deboned.
• Ground cinnamon
• Paprika
• Ground turmeric
• Cumin seed
• Rice wine
• Soy sauce
• Milk or yoghurt
• Time (5 minutes + 5 hours + 20 minutes)

Boneless chicken legs ready
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The steps are simpler than you can imagine.

1. Skin and chop chicken leg into smaller pieces.

Chopped into smaller pieces, fat removed
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2. Pour chopped meat into a mixing bowl

Place chicken pieces into a container
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3. Add ground cinnamon, paprika and ground turmeric. Amount? Your call. I like more paprika to add the colour, don't worry, it's not spicy.

Spices in the pot
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4. Heat about 2 teaspoons of cumin seeds in a microwave for 30 seconds to bring out the aroma, grinding them will extract even more. A little fact for you, cumin seed is the key source of Indian curry smell, almost impossible to miss.

Special treatment with cumin seeds
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5. Add cumin seeds, a teaspoon of rice wine to remove the taste of iciness from the meat, and soy sauce to add taste. Mix well.

All herbs, sauces and seeds are in
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6. If you don't have yoghurt, just add milk like I do.

No yoghurt, add milk instead
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mix and stir
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7. Mix well and leave it to marinate for about 5 hours.

Red is good
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8. Place meat into a plate,

on the plate, ready for cooking
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and cook it in an oven at 250°C for 10 mins per side.

250 degree Celsius, 10 mins on each side
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9. Get your eating utensils ready!

The product
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Vocabulary:
debone -- (vb)[T] To remove the bones from
skin -- (vb) [T] to remove the skin of something:
aroma -- (n)[C]  a strong, pleasant smell, usually from food or drink:
eating utensil -- (n)[C] tools for eating, such as chopsticks, knife and fork

Resources:

Chicken Tikka @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/debone
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/skin_7
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/aroma?q=aroma+
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eating_utensils