India Tandoori Chicken Recipe- How to make india Tandoori Chicken Recipe
India Tandoori Chicken Recipe
This tandoori chicken makes me feel nostalgic about Tanzania where we used to get so many colorful kebabs and grills. We were fascinated by the colors. Some colors of grills and kebabs were golden, yellow, orange, red, green,etc...Tanzania was very much like India.
Ingredients
- 1 no chicken, (approx 1 kg) skin removed
- 1st marinade: mix all the ingredients together
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp ginger - garlic paste
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2nd marinade: mix all the ingredients together
- 250 gm thick yoghurt
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 100 ml vegetable oil
- ½ tsp cinnamon powder
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp salt
- A pinch of edible red colour(optional)
- Butter -oil mixture for basting
- 1 ½ tsp lime juice
- 1 tsp chat masala
Making
- Skin the chicken and wash and clean it. Pat it dry with a paper towel.
- Make a few slits on the breast, back, thighs, leg and back of the chicken.
- In a large bowl mix all the ingredients mentioned in the marinade section and refrigerate for 8 hrs or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 375F
- Arrange the chicken on an oven proof dish with the breast side up. Tie the legs together with a twine.Tuck the wing close to the body.
- Bake the chicken at 375F for 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hrs or until the internal temperature of the chicken is about 180F in the thickest part of the chicken. Make sure you check the chicken occasionally while baking.
- Take the chicken out and smear some oil or ghee and cover it with a aluminium foil and allow it to rest for at least 15 minutes before slicing it.
- fresh lime juice over the chicken.
Category: Chicken receips
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