Delicious Tandoori Chicken

This is definitely the most loved recipe by all chicken lovers in India. This tandoori chicken is cooked in the oven. It taste delicious and mouth watering.

Ingredients:

• Chicken legs – 3 or 6 chicken drumsticks
• First marinade
• Kashmiri chili powder – ¾ tsp
• Ginger – garlic paste – 1 ½ tsp
• Lemon juice – a few drops
• Salt to taste
• Second marinade
• Kashmiri chili powder – 2 tsp
• Coriander powder – ½ tsp
• Gram flour – 3 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Clove – 3 or 4
• Cinnamon – 1 stick
• Cardamon – 3
• Nutmeg – a pinch
• Fennel seeds – ½ tsp
• Yogurt – ¾ cup
• Mustard powder – ¾ tsp
• Kasoori methi powder – 1/3 tsp
• Oil – 3 or 4 tsp

Method:

• Give two or three slits on the chicken pieces till close to the bone.
• Mix the ingredients listed in marinades one and set aside for half an hour.
• Heat two tsp of oil and add gram flour and roast it in a slow flame for about a minute.
• Dry roast garam masala and make it into a fine powder.
• Mix all the ingredients listed in the second marinade (except oil) along with the gram flour paste and coat the chicken with it.
• Finally add the oil on top.
• Leave it in refrigerator for at least four to five hours.
• Preheat oven to 450 degree F and place it on a greased baking tray.
• Cook for ten minutes and then turn around and cook for another ten minutes.
• For the next ten minutes reduce to 250 degree F.
• Take out of the oven and allow to cool a bit before serving.

Try this and enjoy the food.

Keywords – greased baking tray, oven, marinades, garam masala, ingredients.

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