Chicken Recipe

Tandoori Chicken - Indian Roasted Chicken

August 02, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments

Tandoori Chicken - Indian Roasted Chicken
Tandoori chicken is a famous appetizer from Punjab which is equally famous all over the Indian subcontinent.  This yummy appetizer was invented by Kundan Lal gujral, a punjabi restaurant owner.
Here chicken is marinated in selected spices and yogurt. Later it is roasted in a special oven called tandoor from where it is named as tandoori chicken. But we do not have clay oven in our home Today I will show easy way of making tandoori chicken which is equally testy like restaurant’s tandoori chicken. Tandoori chicken can be eaten by its own as a starter or appetizer or with some rumali roti naan etc. This is oven backed tandoori chicken you can try chicken tandoori without oven recipe.

Ingredients:
For 1st Marination
Chicken leg pieces (600grams/3 big pieces)
1 lime/lemon
2tbsp. ginger garlic paste
½ tsp. turmeric powder
2 tsp. Kashmiri red chili powder
Salt sugar to taste
For 2nd Marination
3 tbsp. tandoori masala
3 tbsp. hung yogurt 1tbsp. /chicken pieces
1tbsp. kasuri methi/dried fenugreek leaves
½ tsp. carom seed
½ tsp. chaat  masala


Method
·       First take some chicken leg pieces with thigh give some cuts all over the chicken. I will do two marination.
·       1st Marination    
·       Marinate the chicken with lemon juice, turmeric powder, kashmiri red chili powder, salt and sugar & mustard oil thoroughly massage those chicken pieces with those margination. Let it rest for 15-30minutes.
·       2nd Marination
·       After 30 minutes, add hung yogurt, tandoori masala, kasuri methi/fenugreek leaves, ajwain/carom seed, chaat masala mix everything thoroughly rub the chicken with this margination. Let it rest for 2 hours.
·       After 2 hours, preheat the oven at 190°C/374°F. Place the chicken over an oven tray and bake it for 20mins.
·       After 20 mins take out the tray and flip another side of chicken and brush oil. Bake it for 5 minutes.
·       After 5 minutes take it out from oven and flip chicken pieces and brush oil. Higher the temperature at 250°C or broil it for 5 minutes.

·       After 5 minutes take the tray out of the oven and flip those chicken pieces other side and broil it for last 5 minutes.
·       So our Tandoori chicken is ready to serve. Enjoy J
·       For more details watch my youtube video.

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