Step-by-Step Guide to Make Ultimate Chicken Tandoori

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken tandoori. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Tandoori is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken Tandoori is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Take For the tandoori marinade:
3. Prepare 2 cups yogurt, plain
4. Prepare 1 tablespoon garam masala
5. Prepare 2 teaspoons coriander powder
6. Make ready 2 teaspoons chili powder
7. Take 1 juice of 1 lemon
8. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, crushed
9. Prepare 3 tablespoons grated ginger
10. Take red food colouring
11. Make ready For the garam massala mixture: (makes 0.5 cup)
12. Make ready 2 tablespoons ground cardamom, seeds
13. Prepare 1 cinnamon, stick, broken up
14. Make ready 2 tablespoons cumin, seeds
15. Prepare 1 teaspoons whole cloves
16. Take 2 tablespoons black peppercorns
17. Prepare 1 teaspoon nutmeg, grated
18. Take 2 tablespoons dried coriander, seeds
19. Take Special equipment: an electric coffee/ spice grinder

Steps 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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