Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, tandoori chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook tandoori chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tandoori chicken:

1. Get 8 chicken breast
2. Take 1 1/2 piece ginger
3. Make ready Small pod of garlic (whole bulb)
4. Make ready 1 large onion
5. Make ready 285 ml plain yoghurt
6. Take 140 ml lemon juice
7. Take 1 tsp chili powder
8. Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
9. Prepare Salt
10. Take 2 sticks cinnamon
11. Get 1 bay leaf
12. Prepare 10 cloves
13. Make ready 8 black peppercorns
14. Make ready 3 cardamon seeds
15. Prepare Red food colouring (optional)
16. Get Butter

The dish originated from the Indian subcontinent and is popular in many other parts of the world. Dishes similar to tandoori chicken may have existed. Tandoori Chicken is an Indian dish that's traditionally marinated in yogurt and spices then roasted in a hot tandoor oven (a cylindrical shaped clay oven). It usually has a vibrant color because most often you'll find it colored with turmeric, chili powders or even food coloring.

Instructions to make Tandoori chicken:

1. Liquidise the ginger, garlic, onion and yoghurt to a paste.
2. Apply to the chicken breasts and should you wish, add a couple of drops of red colouring to bring a pink colour. Marinade over night
3. The next day, grind your cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves, peppercorns, cardamon seeds.
4. Next add chili powder, cumin seeds, lemon juice into the ground spices
5. Make some shallow slits in the breast if you want to keep as whole breasts. If you don't, for say kebabs then instead of small slices, cut chicken into large pieces
6. Add your spice mix into the slits and cover with salt and butter. Or if kebabs, place chicken pieces into bowl and add spices and mix
7. Place under grill until only clear juice to ensure its fully cooked. If not, grill for longer.
8. If kebabs, 200C/400F and grill again till juices are clear. Coat the chicken pieces with left over spice mix when you rotate.
9. Enjoy with some chili sauce or raita etc.

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