AUTHENTIC TANDOORI CHICKEN

      Title: AUTHENTIC TANDOORI CHICKEN
  Categories: Chicken
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
       1    Text recipe
  
   Make a marinade of yoghurt, lime juice, chilli powder or paprika, five
   spice powder (we would used "garam masala" which is a powder of
   cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf, cardamom, nutmeg and pepper corns) paste
   of green chillis, ginger-garlic paste, a pinch of red food colouring
   and salt. Marinate it for at least three to four hours (leaving it
   overnight would be best). Then heat your oven, pop the chicken pieces
   in an oven-proof dish, pour in a little of the marinade and for the
   effect of the "tandoor" place a piece of live-coal in your oven (it
   gives a wonderful aroma). It takes around 10-15 minutes to get done
   but around half way open the oven and brush the chicken with oil.
   Make sure not to overdo it. It should be just done for the chicken to
   be nice and succulent. When it is nice and dry serve it on a bed of
   lettuce with lemon wedges (which could also be squeesed on the
   chicken before serving) and a sprig of parsley.
   
   Tandoori is a style of cooking which is close to grilling. In olden
   times it used to be done in big clay pots which used to be put under
   the ground for the meat to cook..but now we have "tandoors" or ovens
   could be used too.
   
   From : Ramu Menon  6:606/1  17 Jun 96  12:58:00
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