Tandoori Chicken Recipe

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The iconic Punjabi dish cooked with chicken on the bone, flavoured with a delicate blend of spices in a yoghurt marinade - healthy and delicious!
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The iconic tandoori chicken comes from my family's home region in India and it's a dish that we are very proud of. Our family barbecues have never involved sausages or burgers, our barbecues are all about tandoori chicken, lamb kebabs and spicy chutneys.

Traditionally tandoori chicken is cooked with a whole bird that has been infused with flavour though a distinct two-stage marinading process using a wood burning clay oven that is cylindrical in shape and built into the ground.

The tandoor oven is what gives this amazing dish its unique flavour, texture and smoky fragrance and it's the Kashmiri chillies that give it the iconic red colour (not the luminous red we are used to seeing in restaurants). As difficult as it is to replicate these flavours I have been trialling and testing for years and think that I have a pretty good recipe here. I am very passionate about this dish and not only do I love to eat it but I really enjoy putting it together too. Make your barbecue something special this year and give this a go!

Ingredients
4 chicken legs, skinned and trimmed

Marinade
1 tbsp mustard oil
1 large lemon
4 cloves garlic, crushed
2 cm piece of ginger, grated
1 green chilli, finely chopped
200ml Greek yoghurt
1 tsp salt
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp cumin seeds, crushed
1 tbsp Kashmiri​ red chilli powder
1 tbsp dried fenugreek leaves.

Garnish
Handful of coriander chopped lemon wedges

Method
Wash the chicken pieces and leave to drain. Ensure the chicken is thoroughly dry then slash the meat diagonally before marinating.
Blend the garlic, ginger, chilli in a pestle and mortar blender with lemon juice.
Place the dry chicken in a dish and stir in the blended ingredients pour on the lemon juice and the mustard oil.
In a separate dish mix the remaining ingredients with the yoghurt to create a paste. Add this yoghurt paste to the chicken and using your hands massage into the meat.
Cover, refrigerate and leave to marinade for at least 30 minutes but the longer the better. Heat the oven to 180oC.
Transfer the marinated chicken to an oven tray and cook for about 30-40 minutes. The chicken should be tender and a little charred which helps give the smokey flavour. Even better cook this on the barbecue!

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