Recipe: Yummy Chicken Tandoori

Chicken Tandoori.

You can cook Chicken Tandoori using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Tandoori

1. You need of chicken breast, or drumsticks or thighs, cleaned and skin removed.
2. You need of For the tandoori marinade:.
3. It's of yogurt, plain.
4. You need of garam masala.
5. You need of coriander powder.
6. Prepare of chili powder.
7. Prepare of juice of 1 lemon.
8. Prepare of garlic, crushed.
9. You need of grated ginger.
10. You need of red food colouring.
11. Prepare of For the garam massala mixture: (makes 0.5 cup).
12. Prepare of ground cardamom, seeds.
13. Prepare of cinnamon, stick, broken up.
14. It's of cumin, seeds.
15. It's of whole cloves.
16. You need of black peppercorns.
17. Prepare of nutmeg, grated.
18. It's of dried coriander, seeds.
19. It's of Special equipment: an electric coffee/ spice grinder.

Chicken Tandoori instructions

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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