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Chicken Tandoori -

Chicken Tandoori is our favorite weeknight dinner! This easy chicken can be on the table in 15 minutes! Need more easy chicken recipes to keep on hand for busy nights? I love this Chicken Tandoori recipe and or this amazing sheet pan chicken! These chicken dinners are some of my go-to comfort food!

Chicken Tandoori You can have Chicken Tandoori using 19 ingredients and 6 steps.

Chicken Tandoori Ingredients

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