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Dinner · 30 min · 4 plates

Chicken tikka skillet

Yogurt marinade even for twenty minutes. High heat, char on the edges.

The sheet · 4 plates · 30 min

easy

Why tonight. Yogurt marinade even for twenty minutes. High heat, char on the edges.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • yogurt
  • cumin
  • garlic
  • lemon

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes, cilantro.

Method

  1. Yogurt, lemon, garlic and spice, and the chicken in it for at least an hour. The yogurt is doing the tenderising, so a thick one clings and a runny one slides off.
  2. Scrape most of the marinade off before it hits the pan. Left on, it steams and goes grey instead of charring.
  3. Screaming hot pan or a broiler, and let it take real color in patches. Even browning is the wrong goal here.
  4. Lemon and raw onion at the end. The char is the flavor and it needs something sharp beside it.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
yogurt
Acid and creaminess together, which is why it works as a sauce with no cooking at all.
cumin
Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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