How to Make Homemade Chicken Tandoori

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken tandoori. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Tandoori is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Tandoori is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken tandoori using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tandoori:

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

Instructions to make Chicken Tandoori:

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.

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