Recipe: Appetizing Chicken Tandoori

Chicken Tandoori.

Now, you can boil Chicken Tandoori using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Tandoori

1. Prepare 15/16 kg of chicken breast, or drumsticks or thighs, cleaned and skin removed.
2. It's of For the tandoori marinade:.
3. Prepare 2 cups of yogurt, plain.
4. Prepare 1 tablespoon of garam masala.
5. It's 2 teaspoons of coriander powder.
6. Prepare 2 teaspoons of chili powder.
7. You need 1 of juice of 1 lemon.
8. Prepare 4 cloves of garlic, crushed.
9. You need 3 tablespoons of grated ginger.
10. It's of red food colouring.
11. It's of For the garam massala mixture: (makes 0.5 cup).
12. It's 2 tablespoons of ground cardamom, seeds.
13. Prepare 1 of cinnamon, stick, broken up.
14. You need 2 tablespoons of cumin, seeds.
15. It's 1 teaspoons of whole cloves.
16. Prepare 2 tablespoons of black peppercorns.
17. It's 1 teaspoon of nutmeg, grated.
18. You need 2 tablespoons of dried coriander, seeds.
19. It's of Special equipment: an electric coffee/ spice grinder.

Chicken Tandoori instructions

1. Use a knife to make deep cuts on the surface of the chicken pieces. Place in a deep dish and set aside..
2. 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..
3. For the tandoori marinade, combine well all marinade ingredients in a small bowl. Mix until smooth adding salt according to taste..
4. 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)..
5. 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..
6. Serve on a plate and squeeze some lemon juice over..