Chicken Tandoori.
You can have Chicken Tandoori using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chicken Tandoori
- 🢂 15/16 kg of chicken breast, or drumsticks or thighs, cleaned and skin removed.
- 🢂 of For the tandoori marinade:.
- 🢂 2 cups of yogurt, plain.
- 🢂 1 tablespoon of garam masala.
- 🢂 2 teaspoons of coriander powder.
- 🢂 2 teaspoons of chili powder.
- 🢂 1 of juice of 1 lemon.
- 🢂 4 cloves of garlic, crushed.
- 🢂 3 tablespoons of grated ginger.
- 🢂 of red food colouring.
- 🢂 of For the garam massala mixture: (makes 0.5 cup).
- 🢂 2 tablespoons of ground cardamom, seeds.
- 🢂 1 of cinnamon, stick, broken up.
- 🢂 2 tablespoons of cumin, seeds.
- 🢂 1 teaspoons of whole cloves.
- 🢂 2 tablespoons of black peppercorns.
- 🢂 1 teaspoon of nutmeg, grated.
- 🢂 2 tablespoons of dried coriander, seeds.
- 🢂 of Special equipment: an electric coffee/ spice grinder.
instructions Chicken Tandoori
- Use a knife to make deep cuts on the surface of the chicken pieces. Place in a deep dish and set aside..
- To prepare the garam masala: mix, then toast all ingredients in a pan for 10 mn, transfer to a coffee/spice grinder and grind them into a powder..
- For the tandoori marinade, combine well all marinade ingredients in a small bowl. Mix until smooth adding salt according to taste..
- Pour the marinade over the chicken and make sure that all the chicken pieces are well coated. Refrigerate at least 2 hours (the longer the better)..
- Transfer the chicken pieces an their marinade to a baking dish. Cook in the oven while turning them every once in a while and basting with the remaining marinade. Cook for around 20 mn or until both sides are done..
- Serve on a plate and squeeze some lemon juice over..
