On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Tikka. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Tikka meaning
A marinade made from various aromatic spices usually with a yoghurt base; often used in Indian cuisine prior to grilling in a tandoor.
Using Tikka
- The main meaning on this page is: A marinade made from various aromatic spices usually with a yoghurt base; often used in Indian cuisine prior to grilling in a tandoor.
- In the example corpus, tikka often appears in combinations such as: chicken tikka, tikka masala, paneer tikka.
Context around Tikka
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tikka
- In this selection, "tikka" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chicken, paneer, causing, masala, kebabs and half stand out and add context to how "tikka" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and chicken tikka with paprika and and told tikka to get. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tikka" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tikka
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Paneer also stands out for making a great vegetarian tikka masala. (11 words)
Order this: The tikka half-chicken served with roti and coal-roasted sambals. (13 words)
Other note-worthy small bites include the tikka-masala skewer and Mother Tongue slider. (14 words)
Famed for its "Indian Tapas" concept, the restaurant mixes light bites such as Trio de Tikka and Kale and Palak Piazi Fritters with main courses such as Murgh Tarka and Spicy Lamb Kofta as part of an Indian Street food experience. (41 words)
The bowl-based menu will also stay the same, featuring popular dishes such as “Tikka Chance of Me” with chicken, pickled onions, and toasted cumin yogurt, along with “Caul Me Maybe” made with cauliflower, peanut sesame sauce, and lemon turmeric rice. (41 words)
In those pre-, pre-Instagram days, the pioneers of modern Indian cuisine — Bhatia, Atul Kochhar and Vivek Singh, all in London — were struggling to be recognised by a market saturated with chicken tikka masala and freeze-heat-serve gajar halwa. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Too afraid to publicly admit that my levels of spice basically range from korma up to tikka, he recommends I go for a mixture of saag aloo and chicken tikka with paprika Biryani rice (£9 including a drink).
Mehfill Indian Cuisine features a menu of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian tandoor dishes, including signature items like Tandoori Momo Chicken, Chicken Seekh Kebab, Hussaini Paneer Tikka, and Tandoori Paneer Tikka.
Miller used pepper sprayed in the car, causing Tikka to scream, and told Tikka to get out of the car.
He later asdded, “My favorite dishes on Eid are Biryani and Sheer-Kurma, but my wife also prepares chicken tikka, kebabs, and a variety of sweets for our guests.
Order this: The tikka half-chicken served with roti and coal-roasted sambals.
The dish I opted for was the chicken tikka puri thanks to our server’s suggestion.
There are traditional Scottish, English and Irish dishes on the menu, with chicken tikka masala, famously created in Glasgow by the chef of the Shish Mahal, also on offer.
The spiciness of Angara Chicken tikka balances with the sweetness of Alphonso mangoes, while BBQ Pork Ribs tossed with homemade sweet and spicy BBQ sauce and chard grilled pair well too,” says Gagan.
During the hearing, she heard that the Dadyal restaurant menus mentioned coconut, almond and cashew in the ingredients of their chicken tikka masala, but not the peanut powder it actually contained.
Famed for its "Indian Tapas" concept, the restaurant mixes light bites such as Trio de Tikka and Kale and Palak Piazi Fritters with main courses such as Murgh Tarka and Spicy Lamb Kofta as part of an Indian Street food experience.
Other note-worthy small bites include the tikka-masala skewer and Mother Tongue slider.
She said the restaurant did not say on its menus that a mixed nut powder containing as much as 99% peanut was used in making its chicken tikka masala.
Switch to outside weed edges (12-16’), off-shore humps of gravel/rock using suckers on tip-ups or jigging Raps, Rippin Raps, Z-Darters or Tikka Minnows towards and right after dusk.
Crisp tenders come doused in fire-red tikka sauce on a bed of buttered cilantro basmati rice with drizzles of raita crema and a touch of Thai basil in a flour tortilla.
In 2001, in a pivotal speech to the Social Market Foundation, the late Labour MP Robin Cook described chicken tikka masala as “a true British national dish”.
A classic chicken tikka will cost £10.95 and all dishes in the tandoori section are served with a fresh green salad and cooling mint yoghurt dip.
However, many travellers have already made the move from road to rail, deciding to take their chances with a Southern Rail Chicken Tikka Masala over Rustlers cheeseburger reheated next to the toilets.
In those pre-, pre-Instagram days, the pioneers of modern Indian cuisine — Bhatia, Atul Kochhar and Vivek Singh, all in London — were struggling to be recognised by a market saturated with chicken tikka masala and freeze-heat-serve gajar halwa.
Paneer also stands out for making a great vegetarian tikka masala.
The bowl-based menu will also stay the same, featuring popular dishes such as “Tikka Chance of Me” with chicken, pickled onions, and toasted cumin yogurt, along with “Caul Me Maybe” made with cauliflower, peanut sesame sauce, and lemon turmeric rice.
Common combinations with tikka
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- chicken tikka 13×
- tikka masala 9×
- paneer tikka 3×
- tikka and 2×
- tikka to 2×