Chicken Tandoori.
At the present, you can boil Chicken Tandoori using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chicken Tandoori
- You need 15/16 kg of chicken breast, or drumsticks or thighs, cleaned and skin removed.
- You need of For the tandoori marinade:.
- Prepare 2 cups of yogurt, plain.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of garam masala.
- You need 2 teaspoons of coriander powder.
- Prepare 2 teaspoons of chili powder.
- Prepare 1 of juice of 1 lemon.
- It's 4 cloves of garlic, crushed.
- Prepare 3 tablespoons of grated ginger.
- It's of red food colouring.
- You need of For the garam massala mixture: (makes 0.5 cup).
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of ground cardamom, seeds.
- Prepare 1 of cinnamon, stick, broken up.
- It's 2 tablespoons of cumin, seeds.
- It's 1 teaspoons of whole cloves.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of black peppercorns.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of nutmeg, grated.
- It's 2 tablespoons of dried coriander, seeds.
- It's of Special equipment: an electric coffee/ spice grinder.
Chicken Tandoori step by step
- 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..