Tandoori Chicken - 2 Recipe - Cooking Index
1 | Chicken either legs or breasts | |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Salt |
One lemon - juice of | ||
15 | Natural yogurt | |
1 | Onion peeled and quartered (medium) | |
1 | Garlic peeled | |
1 | Ginger peeled | |
1 | Fresh hot green chile | |
2 teaspoons | 10ml | Garam masala |
3 tablespoons | 45ml | Yellow food coloring mixed with |
1 1/2 tablespoons | 22ml | Red food coloring |
Score the chicken pieces and rub with salt and Lemon juice. Place the Yogurt, onion, garlic, ginger, green chile and garam Masala in a bowl of a food processor and process until you have a smooth paste, remove from the processor bowl and pass through a fine sieve. Brush the chicken pieces with food coloring, add the remaining food color to the yogurt and mix.
Pour marinade over the chicken pieces ensuring that chicken pieces are well covered cover and refrigerate for 6 - 24 hours.
Preheat oven to its maximum temperature, Remove chicken pieces from the marinade shaking of as much of the marinade as possible, lay chicken pieces on a baking sheet and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
Source:
Ismail Merchant's Incian Cooking/Mrarchway
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