Chicken Kalimiri Kebab/Chicken Kalimri Kabab Recipe/Kalimirch Murg Tikka

Chicken Kalimiri Kebab/Kalimirch Murg Tikka is a super delicious and very flavourful tikka/kebab. Kalimiri Kabab/Kalimirch murg tikka is soft melt in mouth tikkas bursting with flavours of black pepper or kalimirch.

I had tasted this kebab in a restaurant  recently when I visited my cousins .I loved every bite of this succulent kebab..Being a huge fan of pepper I wanted to give it a  try as I came home..I had some chicken breast in the fridge so thought of trying this..I just eye balled the recipe but it turn out more than I expected it to be and was happy that I could replicate the exact taste of the kebabs I tasted in the restaurant..It went very well with chicken tikka masala and butter garlic naan ..You'll just need few ingredients and you can make these super yummy succulent kebabs at your home.

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Ingredients
500 gms chicken breast cut in cubes
1/4  cup  hung curds/yogurt
7-8 big cloves  garlic
1.5 inch ginger
2 to3 green chillies
1.5  to 2 tsp heaped freshly crushed black pepper
1/4 tsp garam masala powder
2 tbsp cream /malai
1 tsp lime juice
salt to taste

Method:

• Clean the chicken and cut in cubes ,wash and drain excess water.
• Apply salt and lime juice to the chicken pieces and keep aside for 15 minutes..
• Grind the chilli,ginger and  garlic to a smooth paste.
• In a bowl mix the  hung yogurt,ground  chilli ginger garlic paste ,pepper and lime juice garam masala and cream/malai.
• Apply this mixture to the chicken and marinate for 3 to 6 hours in the refrigerator.
• You can even grill this.
• In a  non stick pan take 1 tbsp oil and fry on both sides over medium flame covering it with lid so that its soft and cooked well from inside.
• Serve with mint chutney as an starter or as side dish with butter naan.

notes

• the curd needs to be thick ,use around 3/4 cup curd and tie in muslin cloth let all the water drain off.
• you can adjust the green chillies as per your taste ,here i have used less spicy variety of  chillies.
• these tikkas/kabab can be grilled ,use a skewer to place them on charcoal grill ,if using wooden skewers ,soak the skewers in water for 30 minutes before use.
• you can baste butter while grilling these kebab/tikka