Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tandoori chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tandoori chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Tandoori chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
This is an authentic recipe for Tandoori chicken. Serve with long grain Basmati rice, cucumber salad, grilled veggies, roasted corn on the cob and finish off the meal with Kulfi (Indian ice cream). Tandoori chicken gets its name from the bell-shaped tandoor clay oven which is also used to make naan, or Indian flatbread.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook tandoori chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tandoori chicken:
- Prepare 8 chicken breast
- Take 1 1/2 piece ginger
- Get Small pod of garlic (whole bulb)
- Get 1 large onion
- Get 285 ml plain yoghurt
- Make ready 140 ml lemon juice
- Make ready 1 tsp chili powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready 2 sticks cinnamon
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Get 10 cloves
- Make ready 8 black peppercorns
- Take 3 cardamon seeds
- Get Red food colouring (optional)
- Make ready Butter
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Steps to make Tandoori chicken:
- Liquidise the ginger, garlic, onion and yoghurt to a paste.
- Apply to the chicken breasts and should you wish, add a couple of drops of red colouring to bring a pink colour. Marinade over night
- The next day, grind your cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves, peppercorns, cardamon seeds.
- Next add chili powder, cumin seeds, lemon juice into the ground spices
- Make some shallow slits in the breast if you want to keep as whole breasts. If you don't, for say kebabs then instead of small slices, cut chicken into large pieces
- Add your spice mix into the slits and cover with salt and butter. Or if kebabs, place chicken pieces into bowl and add spices and mix
- Place under grill until only clear juice to ensure its fully cooked. If not, grill for longer.
- If kebabs, 200C/400F and grill again till juices are clear. Coat the chicken pieces with left over spice mix when you rotate.
- Enjoy with some chili sauce or raita etc.
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