Ingredients to Cook Hindi Tandoori Chicken

Tandoori Chicken. 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.

It's just as good as what you'd get at an Indian restaurant and it's so easy to make! Chicken thighs are soaked in a creamy, well spiced, yogurt based marinade and then cooked on the grill to get that traditional char. Tandoori chicken originated from the Mughlai cuisine & is one of the most popular chicken appetizers that stole the hearts of many across the globe. You can cook Tandoori Chicken using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tandoori Chicken

1. It's 1 kg of Chicken (whole leg,thighs or drumstick).
2. Prepare 2 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
3. Prepare 3 tsp of red chilli powder.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
5. You need 1 tsp of pepper powder.
6. It's 1 tsp of cumin powder.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of kasoori methi.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of coriander powder.
9. You need 1 tsp of garam masala.
10. It's 2 tsp of tandoori masala.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of food colour.
12. It's 150 grams of hunk curd.
13. Prepare 2 tsp of lemon(juice).
14. You need As needed of Oil or butter to brush on chicken.
15. You need To taste of Salt.

This recipe will give you the soft, juicy, flavorful and delicious grilled chicken with bursting flavors of spices & a unique smoky aroma. You can make this tandoori chicken in an oven & on stovetop. Tandoori chicken is my favorite item at Indian buffets. How can anyone resist an all-you-can-eat spread of Indian food of Tandoori chicken, chicken tikka masala, butter chicken, naan, samosa and more?.

Tandoori Chicken instructions

1. Clean the chicken with turmeric powder and drain the water completely..
2. Now gash the chicken into flesh part or thick portion,so that the marination goes in evenly..
3. In a mixing bowl add red chilli powder, cumin powder,coriander powder, pepper powder, ginger garlic paste,turmeric powder,tandoori masala, food colour, hunk curd,lemon juice,salt, garam masala and mix everything together and make it into paste..
4. Take each chicken pieces and marinate separately..
5. Refrigerate for 5-6 hrs or overnight..
6. Preheat oven for 10 minutes(350-400 degree F).
7. Line up the baking tray with silver foil and keep the chicken pieces on wire rack for 25mins(350 degree F)on one side and 25 minutes on other side..
8. Show the chicken pieces on direct heat and serve with mint chutney..

In this post, I will teach you a homemade Tandoori chicken recipe which I learned from my friend Simply Reem who is a master Indian chef. Tandoori chicken is a chicken dish prepared by roasting chicken marinated in yogurt and spices in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven. The dish originated from the Indian subcontinent and is popular in many other parts of the world. This is an easy baked Tandoori Chicken recipe for everyone who happens not to have a tandoor sitting in the middle of your kitchen! Made with accessible ingredients from scratch, chicken is infused with flavour from a yogurt tandoori chicken marinade then baked until golden with little charred bits.