Chicken Tandoori

Chicken Tandoori,is a famous Indian dish,where chicken is marinated with other spices overnight and baked in a oven.Basically,whole chicken is coated with masalas and baked as a whole in Tandoor.Here, I have taken chicken legs for this dish. 


Chicken Tandoori!!!


Ingredients:
1.Chicken legs                      -   8 pieces
2.Chicken Tadoori masala    -  1 tbsp
3.G&G paste                        -   1 tbsp
4.Chilli pwdr                       -    1 tbsp
5.Lemon                               -    1/2
4(a).Rice flour                     -    2 tbsp
4(b).Corn flour                    -    2 tbsp
6.Yogurt                               -    1/4 cup
7.Salt                                    -    to taste
8.Red color                           -   1 tsp
9.Oil                                      -   2 tbsp
Method:
* Wash the chicken legs and make slits into it, as shown.
* Wipe of  the water from the chicken completely ,using a tissue paper


Slit chicken after wiping off water in a tissue...


* In a mixing bowl,add all the ingredients and squeeze the lemon .Make it into a fine paste .
* Dip the chickens one by one and rub the masalas well into the chicken,so that the masalas are evenly spread into it.

* Pour little oil over the marinated chicken.
* Marinate the chicken in fridge overnight.
* Arrange the chicken in a baking tray covered with aluminium foil.
* Pre heat the oven 400 degrees for 10 mins and place the tray with chicken into the oven
* For every 10 mins take the chicken out turn around and coat it with oil and place the chicken again in the oven as shown,

* In the last 10 mins ,turn the mode to broil in the oven,bcoz this will make chicken ,slightly crisp.
* Approximately, it wud have taken 30 to 40 mins.
* Check the chicken in between, whether it is cooked well.

* Garnish with cilantro and serve with ranch and ketch up.

Note:
If u think ur chk is too hot, just wipe off the masalas after marinating overnight and bake it in the oven.

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Easy Chicken Tandoori