The Tandoori chicken is a typical dish of India where chicken meat is marked with natural yogurt and tandoori masala, a mixture of spices that includes salt, turmeric, paprika, phenogreco, fennel, coriander, pepper and cumin. Each family prepares their chicken Tandoori Masala with its home recipe, which varies a bit in the spices used and in the quantities according to each house. Traditionally, the baked tandoori chicken is cooking called Tandoor, an Indian cylindrical oven made of clay and coal that confers a very characteristic smoked taste of the meat. If you like Indian food, learn how to make chicken breast tandoori masala in a very simple. I have used chicken breasts so that the meat is very soft and tasty, but you can use other parts of the bird if you prefer. Try it and see what flavor!
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| Ingredients to make chicken tandoori: |
| 4 chicken breasts 1 cup of natural yogurt without sugar 1 tablespoon tandoori (mixture of Indian spices) 1 tablespoon of garam masala (mixture of Indian spices) 2 tablespoons of paprika or spicy paprika 1 tablespoon soup coloring or achiote (optional) 1 tablespoon dessert of tahini or sesame paste (optional) 1 tablespoon dessert of salt |
| ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS: MIDDLE COST, |
Ingredients to make chicken tandoori:
1. It begins with the preparation of the salsa of the chicken tandoori with yogurt: for this, in a bowl mixes the yogurt with all the spices (Tandoori, Garam Masala, the paprika and the dye). Also add the salt and, if you wish, a little tahini paste. Mix everything very well.
Trick: Add the dye in this recipe to get a red mixture. Tahini adds more creaminess to the mixture and a soft sesame flavor, however it is not part of the original tandoori chicken recipe.
2. Clean the chicken breasts removing the bone and fat. Make some cuts in the meat so that the seasoning penetrates better and place them in a vessel container or source. Add the previous mixture and, using the hands, rub all the chicken with the Tandoori Masala. Cover the container with transparent film and let it stand in the fridge or refrigerator for 2 hours.
3. After leaving the chicken breasts tandoori mar marking turns on the oven in the 200 ºC. While preheating, fodder a tray with aluminum foil or plant/sulphurized paper and place the spicy meat. When hot, put the baked tandoori chicken for 20 minutes.
4. After that time, the homemade tandoori chicken must be golden and the sauce will have formed a kind of cortex or soft scab, as shown in the image. Then take it out of the oven with care not to burn you.
5. accompanies this easy-to-chicken recipe with what you prefer as for example do it in India, where it is typical to prepare the chicken tandoori with basmati rice. You can also try other Indian variations such as these recipes that we recommend below:- Rice with Hindu style spices
– Rice with saffron and almonds
– Turmeric rice
– Tandoori mushrooms
