Friday 15 July 2011

Tandoori Chicken

Ingredients :
Chicken  Whole  - 900 kg ( undressed ),
Hung Curd - 2 tbsp - ( take 4 tbsp curd and tie in a muslin and hang it for an hour or put curd in your tea strainer and leave it for an hour , water from the curd will come out and you will have thick curd or hung curd )
Onion - 1 medium size  - half ( grated with the cheese grater )
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp ,
Lemon -1 ( juice ),
Turmeric pwd -1 tsp ,
Kashmiri red chilli pwd -1 tsp ,
Tandoori masala  pwd - 1 tbsp ,
Salt - 1 and 1/4 tsp ,
Oil -1 tbsp for marination ,
Oil -2 or 3 tsp for roasting.
Method :
Make slits in the chicken and rub lemon, salt and turmeric pwd and  all the above ingredients and keep in the fridge over night .
Pre heat the oven .
Temperature of oven is -300 degree centigrade.
Time of roasting  -  40  to 45 minutes .
If you have a rotisserie in your oven then pierce the chicken with the rod and roast the whole chicken.
pour a few tsp of oil on the chicken and let it roast .keep on turning the rotisserie so that chicken is evenly roasted .You can cut the chicken to big pieces and roast it too .
Roast one side of the whole chicken for 15 minutes and then turn the side of the  chicken and roast for another 15 minutes .Like wise roast the upper and lower part of the chicken for 5 minutes each.
If you are using a tray ,grease it and and put the chicken on it and roast it .Add few tsp of oil while roasting .Keep changing sides as written above .
When chicken is nearly done sprinkle  a tsp of tandori masala and roast for another 5 minutes .
 Add a dash of lemon juice while serving .
Enjoy hot tandoori chicken with green salad and naan !

4 comments:

  1. This turned out great. My chicken was a humongous 1.8Kg and I roasted it at 500F for 45 mins. Very juicy and tender. I'm totally digging this whole roasting thing.

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  2. It is a little difficult roasting and turning the humongous chicken in the oven !But the end says it all .

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  3. Aunty, just a quick question..do I use a skin-on chicken? Coz I guess that would roast better...but we're not so big on the skin-on stuff...can I use skin-less drumsticks n thighs instead? Also would I need to alter the cooking time for it?

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  4. Hello Nazia ,No dont use skin- on -chicken .For tandoori chicken it has to be skin-less .Yes you can tandoor any part of the chicken of your liking.Just make slits and marinate . Yes the roasting time will be less but the temperature will be the same .

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