How to Cook Chicken Tikka Wraps
Serves: 5
Preparation time: 2 hours
Cooking time: 10 mins
Ingredients needed to make Chicken Tikka Wraps:
For the marinade:
- 5 fl oz greek y yogurt
- 1 oz cheddar cheese, coarsely grated
- 1’’ piece fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 garlic clove, chopped
- Large pinch of green cardamom seeds
- Large pinch of black cardamon seeds
- Large pinch of fennel seeds
- 2 tbsp gram flour
- 1 ½ tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp garam masala
- ½ tsp red chili powder
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp salt to taste
For the chicken:
- 14 oz boneless and skinless chicken breasts, diced
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- Oil, for brushing
For the wrap:
- 5 packaged flour tortillas
- 2 tomatoes, finely sliced
- ½ onion, finely sliced
- 1 lettuce, shredded
- ¾ tsp chaat masala, available at Asian grocery stores
- 5 fl oz chutney
Cooking instructions for Chicken Tikka Wraps:
- Add the whole spices to spice grinder and pulse them into a fine powder.
- Transfer the ground spices into a large bowl, along with rest of the ingredients and whisk them together into a uniform mixture.
- Poke the chicken cubes with a fork and place it inside the bowl.
- Toss them until they are well coated with the marinate and set aside in the fridge for a couple of hours to marinate.
- To cook the chicken, take it out of the fridge and allow to return to room temperature.
- In the meantime, warm up your grill to medium and grease its rack with lots of oil.
- Spread an aluminium foil on the floor of the oven to catch any juice or marinade dripping down from the chicken pieces.
- Insert the skewers through the marinated chicken chunks and place them on the grill rack so that they are spaced apart.
- Grill the chicken tikkas for about 8-10 minutes, flipping them over once halfway of the cooking time is reached.
- During the last five minutes of cooking, wrap the the tortillas in an aluminium foil and place it into the oven so that it is toasted while the tikkas grill.
- Brush them with the melted butter and continue to grill further for a minute or until the edges char slightly.
- Remove the skewers and sprinkle chaat masala over them.
- Arrange few chicken tikkas along the middle of each tortilla and place the sliced veggies on top.
- Smother them with chutney and one end of tortilla over the other.
- Tuck in the open end and slice diagonally.
- Serve with chutney and enjoy.
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