18.6.09

Tandoori Chicken







Tandoori Chicken:

Ingredients:

Chicken 1 whole - cut into 4 (2 breasts and 2 thighs)

Spices to be Toasted & Powdered:

Cinnamon
Cloves
Cardamom
Peppercorns
Coriander seeds
Tymol seeds
Chironji
Saffron

Other Ingredients:

Black Salt
Regular Salt
Chili powder 1 spoon
Kashminri chili powder 1 spoon
Red food color 1 spoon
Turmeric 1/4 spoon
Lemon juice
Yogurts
Ginger-garlic paste
Onion paste 2 spoons
Mint paste 1/4 spoon
Few cubes of butter/ghee for basting
Chaat masala to garnish.

Method:

Skin the chicken, make a neat incision probably thrice on top of the breasts and things. On things, underside...make atleast 2 cuts.

Well, now mariante this with plain salt, lemon juice and chili powder for about 2 hours.

Then followed by all the above mentioned items, except ghee.

Maybe overnight marination will do!

Now, smear them with ghee and grill them till soft and tender on the inside and crisp on the outside.

If you prefer to do it in the oven, bake them for 30 minutes of 350 degrees and and broil them for roughly 7-10 minutes, often changing its postion!

Enjoy!!

17 comments:

n33ma said...

oh my,I shouldnt have looked at this tandoori chicken.I want some riye now.

Pooja said...

delicious ! mouth watering !

Poornima Nair said...

Absolutely delicious...can't stop drooling

Preeti Singh said...

ooooo wowwwwwwww so perfect colour....I m drooling .... xtremly wonderful..

Pooja said...

Looks awesome Malar! And a different recipe. Should try this out some time!
Reg your query: Plantain is different from banana reg the texture and look. Plantains are much more harder and in its raw form its used for cooking esp in dishes like avial. In this preparation 3/4th ripe plantains are used(not bananas). If the plantain used is over ripe in this preparation, on steaming n mashing it would become too sticky n messy and will become difficult to handle! Hence you may go for the ripe ones not over riped ones. Also you may check out my previous post for picture of plantains: Ghee Roasted Plantains
Hope this clears your doubt. Else feel free to ask for more :)

My Taste Heaven said...

I really all kinds of chicken recipes that you posted. Thank you so much for sharing!

Chitra said...

Looks good:)

Parita said...

Fantastic!!

Ana Powell said...

Hi Malar
Loved this one, awesome.
Thank you for sharing all these beautiful recipes with us.
Lovely and delicious x

Hari Chandana said...

good job!!

Gita said...

Such a tempting dish Malar...tandoori chicken is my favorite...sometimes instead of the food color, I add a teaspoon of paprika...it comes out well too :)

Priya said...

Absolutely delish!!!

Home Cooked Oriya Food said...

My favorite chicken dish in Indian restaurants. Yours looks soooo good...

kittymatti said...

looks great, very nice presentation malar

Valarmathi said...

Oh Malar chicken looks fantastic, awesome, superb. I liked all your chicken recipes. Looks yummy.

meeso said...

That plate looks mouthwatering, please pass some my way!

Akal's Saappadu said...

chicken tandoori , hummmmmm, perfect for the season, looks perfect; no wonder, nee dhaane kozhi raani aachey, hehehe!

Am I seeing a heart shape there, hehehe, Malar, trying to romance using the kozhi legs, huh? hahahah
great idea, did that work :) ?