Anyone have a good tandoori chicken recipe?

Please don't copy and paste something you found off the web unless you've actually tried cooking it before. ;)





Thanks.Anyone have a good tandoori chicken recipe?
Okay! I am going to copy and paste the recipe from a website, specially since it is my recipe from my own website. There are actually four Tandoori Chicken recipes on the website that you can look over. I decided to include the old fashioned recipe.





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Tandoori Chicken Classical Old fashioned Recipe


In a Classical recipe chicken is marinated twice, Lime Marinate followed by Yogurt Marinate before cooking in the Tandoor





Ingredients


Lime Marinate


1. Chicken Roaster: 1


2. Salt: 1陆 teaspoons


3. Lime juice: 录 cup


4. Saffron: 1 teaspoon


5. Hot water: 1 Tablespoon


Yogurt Marinate


1. Chopped onion: 1 cup


2. Fresh ginger: 1';x1'; chopped


3. Garlic Cloves peeled chopped: 3


4. Ground Cumin: 1陆 teaspoon


5. Ground coriander seed: 1 teaspoon


6. Garam Masala Standard Frying Punjab: 1陆 teaspoon


7. Ground Nutmeg: 录 teaspoon


8. Ground Cayenne: 陆 teaspoon


9. Degi Mirch: 2 teaspoon


May Substitute with Hungarian Paprika


10. Ratan Jot: 2 teaspoon


Ratan Jot may be substituted with Red Food Color


11. Peanut oil: 2 teaspoon


Substitute with any vegetable oil


12. Dahi Yogurt: 1陆 cup


Cooking


1. Melted Ghee: 录 cup





Method


Step 1: Lime Marinate


1. Prepare chicken. Remove skin. Discard skin, internal organs, neck, and wings.


2. Cut into 8 skinless pieces: 4 breast quarters, 2 thighs, 2 drumsticks


3. With a sharp knife cut a deep cross on top and bottom sidfe of of each piece.


4. Steep saffron in water for 5 minutes.


5. Combine salt, saffron with water, lime juice.


6. Put Chicken pieces in a glass bowl. Pour over the lime mixture. Rub mixture into every piece. Cover. Let it rest for one hour at room temperature,





Step 2: Yogurt Marinate


1. Combine all the ingredients in a food processor. Process at continuous speed for 2 minutes to form a smooth creamy paste. Transfer marinate to the glass bowl with chicken and Lime marinate. Mix every thing well with a spatula. Cover and let it rest in the refrigerator for a minimum of 4 hours up to over night





Step 3: Cooking


1. Preheat oven to 425潞 F for about 30 minutes


2. Remove chicken from marinate. Discard Marinate


3. Arrange chicken pieces in a single layer in a shallow baking pan


4. Bake for 15 minutes.


5. Remove baking dish from the oven and baste chicken with Ghee. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Chicken breast will be done before the thighs and drumsticks.Anyone have a good tandoori chicken recipe?
Ingredients:





1 3 lb chicken


1 tesapoon chilli powder


1 teaspoon turmeric


1 teaspoon garam masala powder


1 teaspoon fresh ginger finely chopped


2 mediium cloves garlic crushed


1 green chilli finely chopped


1/2 cup plain, natural yoghurt


juice and zest of 1 lemon


Salt to taste


Vegetable oil





1. Prick the whole chicken with knife or fork all over and make a few diagonal cuts here





2. mix together the red chilli powder, turmeric, salt and lemon juice





3. rub it all over the body and leave to marinate it for 1 hour





4. mix together the lemon zest, yoghurt, ginger, garlic and green chilli paste, garam masala





5. cover the chicken completely, inside and out forcing the mix into the holes and cuts





6. leave it in the marinade, cover and refrigerate over night or longer if you dare (up to 12 hours)





5. Brush the chicken with some of the oil, then put it under a medium to hot grill for about 20 minutes, to brown the skin





6. Bast the chicken with oil and place in the centre of the oven at 356 for 45 minutes to roast until cooked through.





7. serve with a lot of freshly chopped coriander leaves





I hope you like it. It's a little different to keep the chicken whole, but it saves you some work, it's cleaner to work with and makes a great centre piece :))