Boneless Chicken Recipe
Tandoori Chicken
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This beautifully presented tandoori curry chicken is guaranteed to taste just as wonderful as it looks. The sauce is thick and rich and you will be able to taste every spice in the finished dish. Grilling is a very healthy way to cook chicken and it also gives the chicken a gorgeous smoky flavor, which goes well with the spicy tang of this dish. Traditional chicken tandoori is cooked in a "tandoor" oven but grilling the meat is the next best way to make it. This is one of the most mouthwatering international recipes ever, if you like chicken, and you certainly will not be disappointed with the results of this fabulous recipe.
Grilled Tandoori Chicken Recipe
This is a traditional Indian chicken recipe, which needs to be started the day before, to allow the chicken time to marinate. The word "tandoori" refers to the "tandoor," an Indian clay oven that the food is cooked in, rather than the recipe itself. A lot of people think the word does refer to the recipe but that is not correct. Do not let the longish ingredients list here put you off making this one. Most of the ingredients are spices and, if you enjoy making Indian curries, you will find plenty of uses for the spices in future recipes.
A good curry is made by cleverly combining a number of spices to get a good balance. The delicate mixture of spices in this tandoori chicken recipe go together perfectly and the lemon adds a certain tang. You can adjust the spice levels if you like. When making curries, use your imagination. If you think it needs a little more of one spice, add a little more and taste again.
This is a grilled boneless chicken recipe so it is a great one to make when you have friends or family over because boneless chicken recipes are popular with just about everyone. Marinating the chicken overnight really lets the flavor permeate and gives the chicken an incredible amount of taste. The chicken comes alive with this fantastic sauce and if you want an authentic tandoori chicken recipe, look no further because this is the only tandoori curry chicken recipe you will ever need. Serve it with rice or some kind of Indian bread such as chapatti or naan.
Tandoori Chicken with Yogurt Sauce
Ingredients -
16 skinless, boneless chicken thighs (about 3 lbs)
2 teaspoons salt
Cooking spray
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
2 ½ cups plain yogurt
2 teaspoons canola oil
4 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground coriander
4 teaspoons Hungarian sweet paprika
8 crushed cloves garlic
2 teaspoons garam masala
1 teaspoon ground red pepper
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 teaspoons finely chopped, de-seeded Serrano pepper
½ cup peeled, chopped fresh ginger
2 cups chopped onion
Preparation:
Heat the oil in a small skillet over a medium high heat. Add 1-½ teaspoons of the cumin, 1-½ teaspoons of the coriander, the paprika, garam masala, red pepper, and turmeric. Cook for 2 minutes or until fragrant, stirring all the time. Remove from the heat and cool. Place the ginger, onion, Serrano pepper, and garlic in a food process and mix until smooth. Add the spice mixture, ½ cup of the yogurt, 2 tablespoons lemon juice and 1-¾ teaspoons of the salt to the onion mixture. Process until smooth.
Transfer this mixture to a zip-top plastic bag. Cut three shallow slits in each of the chicken thighs. Add the chicken to the bag and seal. Shake well to coat the chicken. Marinate the chicken in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight, turning occasionally.
Prepare the grill. Combine the rest of the yogurt, juice, cumin, coriander, and salt in a bowl. Stir this mixture well, then cover and chill it. Remove the chicken from the bag and discard the marinade. Place the chicken on a grill rack coated with cooking spray. Grill for 7 minutes per side or until done. Serve with the chilled yogurt mixture.
(Serves 8)