Chicken tikka burrito

Servings

4

Prep Time

25 minutes

Cook Time

1 hours

Cuisine

Indian

Mexican

No so simple. Very tasty! A burrito is good, but a burrito with some Indian tikka is just amazing! It’s juice, well seasoned and the veggies give a crunch and the raita adds the perfect freshness!

Chicken tikka burrito

Ingredients

  • 600 gr chicken thighs or breasts
  • Lemon juice
  • 120 gr Greek yogurt 
  • ½ tsp turmeric
  • Tbsp coriander
  • ½ tbsp cumin
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 cm ginger
  • 1 tbsp dried fenugreek
  • ½ tbsp chili powder
  • Black pepper
  • Salt

Raita

  • 1 bunch mint
  • 1 bunch coriander
  • 200 - 300 gr yoghurt
  • ½ cucumber
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 lime for the juice
  • Salt

Sweet and sour onions

  • 200 ml water
  • 200 ml vinegar
  • 45 gr sugar
  • Salt
  • 3 red onions
  • 1 clove

Rice

  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 onion
  • Cinnamon stick
  • 1 tbsp cumin 
  • 360 gr rice
  • 720 ml chicken stock

Rest

  • Jalapeños
  • Tortilla

Directions

  1. Make a paste out of the garlic and ginger
  2. Slice the chicken into cubes
  3. Marinate the chicken in a bowl with all the chicken ingredients.
  4. Put the chicken on a skewer, layer into a baking tray and add the remaining marinate
  5. Bake the chicken in an oven at 220 degrees Celsius or 430 Fahrenheit. Flip half way and end with a minute underneath the broiler
  6. Slice the red onion with a mandoline
  7. Heat the vinegar, water, sugar and salt. Pour the mixture over the onions, cloves and let pickle in a closed jar
  8. Chop the mint, garlic, coriander and deseed, peel and grate the cucumber. Mix with the yogurt, lime juice and salt
  9. Mince a white onion
  10. To a pan with oil add the onion, cumin, cinnamon stick and rice. Fry and go in with the chicken stock. Bring to a simmer and turn down the heat after 10 minutes.
  11. Slice the jalapeño
  12. Assemble the burrito, first the rice, then the jalapeños, chicken, raita, jalapeño and pickled onions. Fold tight and serve!