Sesame Chicken Bites

Serves	14
From book	The Three Sisters Quick & Easy Indian Cook Book

Ingredients

1.	Dry roast the cumin and coriander seeds in a hot frying pan over low heat for 1 minute until dark brown. Transfer to a pestle and mortar and grind to a fine powder
2.	Boil the water in a saucepan, add the chicken pieces and cook for about 10-15 minutes until tender. Boil to reduce all the water. Add the butter and stir the chicken pieces several times so that they are well coated in the melting butter. Transfer to a bowl and finely shred the chicken pieces.
3.	Put the ginger, garlic, onion and green chilli in a good processor and blitz to a puree. Pour this mixture over the chicken.
4.	Add all the dry roasted ground spices, the egg, salt, pepper and coriander leaves to the chicken. Mix all the ingredients well with the spices and chicken so that the chicken is well coated. Transfer to the fridge for 10 minutes to chill
5.	Take a small amount of the chilled mixture and make a small ball the size of an apricot. Press the ball gently to flatten (tikka)
6.	Spread the sesame seeds out in a shallow dis and add the tikka, one by oe, turing and pressing gently to cover the tikka with sesame seeds all over. Keep the tikka pieces on a plate ready to be fried
7.	Heat some oil in a frying pan or a flat griddle pan over a medium heat. When hot, place all the tikkas in the pan and cook gently for 2 minutes on each side, turning carefully with a spatula, until golden in colour.
8.	Serve as a snack or starter with lime wedges and a chutney of your choice.