Tandoori Chicken Recipe

Tandoori Chicken Recipe is one of the easy and most popular starter chicken recipes in Indian restaurants. Learn how to make the tandoori chicken recipe soft, juicy and moist with our step by step image instructions along with tips and a video.

Traditionally, tandoori recipes are made in a clay pot or iron pot which is oval wherein this pot is heated with the help of wood fire or with charcoal. Indians make Indian flatbread (naan), tikka and tandoori recipes.

The key secret to making a perfect recipe is marination so we marinate in two stages one with minimal ingredients salt, ginger garlic paste and lemon juice and the other with a blend of spices. Although we have marinated for 4-5 hours, most of the restaurants marinate overnight.

As restaurants make this recipe regularly, they make use of traditional tandoor pot but when we want to make this recipe at home, our perfect choice is making use of OTG. I have mentioned perfect settings concerning functions, temperature and timing.

Tips to make a perfect tandoori chicken recipe:

• We use large chunks of chicken pieces in this recipe, so making an incision over it helps to absorb spices and turn soft.
• Marinating chicken is done in two stages one with salt, lemon juice and ginger-garlic paste and the other with a blend of spices.
• In the first case, it helps absorb the flavours of ginger garlic paste and then turn soft. In the second case flavours of spices.
• Greasing helps in making the rod non-sticky and it becomes easy while clean the rod.
• Applying ghee/ butter over chicken pieces after baking will make them crisp from the outside and keep a soft texture inside.

You may also like to check other recipes:

Chicken Pakora,

Tandoori Kandhari,

Chicken Pickle,

Andhra Chicken Fry and

Chicken Wings Drumsticks Recipe.

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Tandoori Chicken Recipe

Tandoori Chicken Recipe is one of the easy and most popular starter chicken recipes in Indian restaurants.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Tandoori Chicken Recipe

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes

Servings 4

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

• Chicken – Whole chicken cut into four pieces
• Salt – 1 ¼ tbsp.
• Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbsp.
• Lemon juice – 3 tbsp.
• Curd – 3 tbsp.
• Red chilli powder – 2 tbsp.
• Turmeric powder – 1½ tbsp.
• Garam masala powder – 1 tbsp.
• Jeera powder – ¼ tbsp.
• Kasuri methi – 1 tbsp.
• Oil – 4 tbsp.
• Black pepper powder – ½ tbsp.
• Coriander powder – 1 tbsp.
• Food colour – a pinch optional

Instructions

1. Take large chunks of chicken pieces and make a deep incision and put them in a mixing bowl.
2. To give an extra punch of ginger-garlic flavour and sour flavour, add ginger garlic paste, salt and lemon juice and mix. Marinate for an hour.
3. Let’s prepare spice mix to coat, in a wide vessel add red chilli powder, garam masala powder, jeera powder, black pepper powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, Kasuri methi, curd, oil, a little salt and food colour.
4. Coat this spice mix to chicken even into the incision and marinate further for 3-4 hours.

Preparing Microwave (OTG) for making tandoori chicken recipe:

1. To make the grill and baking tray non-sticky, apply little oil to tissue paper and grease them both.
2. Place wax paper over the baking tray so that excess oil or drops of spice coat may be collected below.
3. Preheat microwave at 210 degrees for 10 minutes by enabling dual rod heating function.
4. Meanwhile, place chicken pieces over the grill rack, if needed coat with a spice mix.
5. Place the grill rack on the top rack and put the baking tray next below it and close the door.
6. By maintaining the same settings set the timer to 30 minutes in the first spell then again 30 minutes on the other side (flip to another side) so that chicken gets cooked to soft.
7. Once cooking is done, grease butter or ghee over tandoori chicken pieces and closes the lid.
8. Set the function to single-rod (upper rod), the temperature at 210 degrees and time to 20 minutes. This will make the chicken crisp and perfect roast.
9. Remove tandoori chicken recipe from otg and garnish with onions and coriander leaves. Serve hot with green chutney or mayonnaise dip.

Recipe Video

How to make the tandoori chicken recipe:

Tandoori Chicken Marination:

1.  Cut whole chicken into four halves and make an incision over it so that it can absorb spices properly.

2.  Add 1 tbsp. salt, ginger garlic paste and lemon juice. Mix well.

3.  Marinate for an hour at room temperature so that chicken turns soft.

4.  In a wide vessel add curd, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala powder.

5.  Sprinkle jeera powder, Kasuri methi, oil and black pepper powder.

6.  Add coriander powder, food colour and ¼ tbsp. salt and mix all ingredients.

7.  Put marinated chicken in spice mix and coat spice mix thoroughly and further marinate for 3-4 hours so that spices get absorbed.

Preparing Microwave (OTG) for making tandoori chicken recipe:

8.  Apply a small amount of oil to tissue paper and grease the grill. At the same time grease the baking tray and place wax paper over it.

9.  Set a function to dual rod heating mode set the temperature to 210 degrees and preheat the microwave for 10 minutes.

10.  Open the lid of marinated chicken and re-apply spices to chicken pieces if necessary and gently place them over the grill.

11.  Place grill on topmost rack and baking tray below it so that oil drops or gravy mix may be collected below.

12.  Let heating mode be in same double rod and temperature at 210 degrees and set timer to 30 minutes.

13.  When you hear a beep sound open the tray and flip chicken pieces to the other side. Bake for 30 more minutes with the same settings.

14.  Open the tray and remove the grill rack. Apply butter or ghee and put the rack back.

15.  Set grilling function to upper single rod heating mode and microwave for 20 minutes and roast.

16.  Place the Tandoori Chicken recipe on a serving plate and garnish with onions and lemon pieces.

Watch the Tandoori Chicken Recipe video on YouTube.