Tandoori Chicken Recipe
How to make Tandoori Chicken
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About Tandoori Chicken Recipe | Easy Tandoori Chicken Recipe: A classic chicken starter recipe! This grilled chicken is a popular Punjabi snack that can be served with onion rings and green chutney. The juicy and spicy chicken pieces just fill you up with its delectable taste. Make this dish for you next dinner party and enjoy it with your family and friends.
Ingredients of Punjabi Tandoori Chicken Recipe: This tandoori chicken is first marinated in freshly made tandoori masala and other spicy masale along with oil and curd and then char grilled to perfection. It's the most popular chicken snack in North India.- Total Cook Time1 hr 05 mins
- Prep Time 05 mins
- Cook Time1 hr
- Recipe Servings4
- Medium
Ingredients of Tandoori Chicken
- 8 Large Chicken pieces with skin (2 pieces breast, 2 pieces of thighs, a couple of wings)
- to taste Oil
- For the marinade:
- 4 tsp Red chilli paste
- 3 tbsp Ginger and garlic paste
- 2 tsp Chaat masala
- 1 1/2 tsp Tandoori masala
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 3 tbsp Curd
- to taste Salt
- 1/2 Lemon (juiced)
- For the tandoori masala:
- 2 Cinnamon sticks
- 1 tbsp Black peppercorns
- 5 Green cardamom
- 3 Brown cardamom
- 2 tsp Coriander seeds
- 2 tsp Cumin seeds
- 3 Cloves
- 1 Bay leaf
- 3/4 tsp Turmeric
How to Make Tandoori Chicken
Prepare the marinade:
1.
In a bowl add ginger and garlic paste, red chilli paste, chaat masala, tandoori masala, oil, curd, salt and lemon juice. Mix it well.
2.
Rub the marinade on the chicken pieces, over the skin and underneath it. Make small gashes in the chicken pieces for the marinade to coat it nicely.
3.
Marinate the chicken pieces for 30 minutes.
4.
Char grill the chicken pieces on a griller or tandoor. Baste with oil at regular intervals.
5.
Serve with lemon wedges and onion rings.
Prepare tandoori masala:
1.
In a pan dry roast cinnamon, peppercorns, green cardamom, brown cardamom, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cloves, bay leaf and turmeric powder.
2.
In a mortar and pestle grind the dry roasted spices into a fine powder. Masala is ready.
3.
If you are making it in an oven, the temperature needs to be around 250-300 degrees C.
4.
Serve hot.
Recipe Notes
To make sure the chicken does not stick to the grill, glaze the grill with some oil.