BAKED TANDOORI CHICKEN

As a non-vegetarian recipes lover, I searched and experimented for a long time before and finaaly coming up with this recipe for genuine Indian restaurant-style tandoori chicken that can make in your own oven at home. Seriously, if you like Tandoori chicken, you are going to love this recipe and it is easy. Tandoori chicken is one of the world famous Indian chicken starter that has its roots from the Mughali cuisine of the Mughal era. This mouthwatering delicious chicken is well known as murgh Tandoor or Tandoori Murgh. Murgh means chicken and tandoor is clay oven in which the spice and yogurt marinated chicken or meal is grilled. We get to see little variations to the authentic recipes such as addition of chickpea flour or besan etc which adds aroma to the tangri or tangdi kabab meaning the legs. Here is my easy recipe of tandoori chicken which is easy to make in an oven or on gas or stove. Traditionally tandoori chicken is made in a cylindrical oven, but this version is in the regular oven. So next time do think about this easy and delicious recipe and share your experience.    

INGREDIENTS:

6-8  Chicken legs or Chicken Drumsticks

2 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste

1 Cup Thick Curd

2 teaspoon Turmeric Powder

2 -3 tablespoon Red Chilly Powder

1 tablespoon Chaat Masala

1 tablespoon Garam Masala

Salt as per required

2 Finely Chopped Green Chillies

½  Cup Gram Flour

Butter for basting

METHOD:

STEP 1 – First start tossing the gram flour dry in a non-stick pan till it changes its colour and your house is full of nice aroma. Remove it from pan and keep aside.

STEP 2 – Clean the chicken legs under running water and make deep cuts in them.

STEP 3 – In a large mixing bowl, add chicken and all the ingredients given above except gram flour and butter. Mix it well.

STEP 4 – Cover it and marinate it for at least 2 hours.

STEP 5 – Now after 2 hours, take the chicken out and add toasted gram flour and mix well.

STEP 6 – Pre-heat the oven at 250 degrees C.

STEP 7 – Line a baking tray with Silver/ Aluminium foil. Brush the foil with oil and arrange the chicken legs in the tray.

STEP 8 – Put them in to a pre-heated oven for about 15 minutes. Take them out and baste them with butter.

STEP 9 – Reduce the oven temperature to 150 degrees C and again bake them for next 15 minutes.

STEP 10 – Now flip over and bake it for 15 minutes. Again take it out and baste with some butter and bake again for 15 minutes.

STEP 11 – Remove from the baking tray and sprinkle some chaat masala and serve.

Serve hot tandoori chicken with chapatti/ bhakari/ bread with onion rings and lemon slice.