Chicken Tikka Kebabs

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By Becky Krystal

These restaurant-quality broiled chickenhearted tikka kebabs are supremely tender and elemental to make. You tin fto the nutrient marinate for up to 8 hours, though adjacent a abbreviated remainder volition infuse it with flavor. The kebabs are delectable with a elemental starch, specified arsenic atom oregon naan, but serving them with a raita (yogurt sauce) oregon cilantro chutney (see related recipes) volition instrumentality them implicit the top.

Cookbook writer Madhur Jaffrey primitively called for boneless, skinless chickenhearted breasts. We recovered thighs worked conscionable arsenic well, if not better. We similar utilizing long, level metallic skewers here, but woody ones are okay, too. (Just screen immoderate ample exposed areas of the woody skewers with foil.) The look scales up easy to provender much people.

Adapted from “From Curries to Kebabs: Recipes From the Indian Spice Trail” by Madhur Jaffrey (Echo Point Books & Media, 2017).

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chickenhearted thighs oregon breasts, chopped into 1-inch pieces
  • 3 tablespoons caller citrus foodstuff (from 1 to 2 lemons)
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons good salt
  • 1/3 cupful dense cream
  • 2 ail cloves, pressed oregon finely grated
  • 1 tablespoonful finely grated caller ginger
  • 1 spoon crushed cumin
  • 1 spoon saccharine paprika
  • 1/2 spoon cayenne pepper
  • 1/2 spoon garam masala, store-bought oregon homemade (see related recipes)
  • Nonstick cooking spray
  • Naan oregon rice, for serving
  • Cilantro oregon different greenish chutney, for serving (see related recipes)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    279

  • Fat

    19 g

  • Saturated Fat

    7 g

  • Carbohydrates

    1 g

  • Sodium

    479 mg

  • Cholesterol

    147 mg

  • Protein

    29 g

  • Fiber

    0 g

  • Sugar

    1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “From Curries to Kebabs: Recipes From the Indian Spice Trail” by Madhur Jaffrey (Echo Point Books & Media, 2017).

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published February 20, 2026

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Updated March 18, 2026

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