Punjabi Tandoori chicken Recipes

How to Prepare / Make / Cook - Tandoori chicken ?

1 medium chicken, cleaned. 1 inch piece raw papaya. 1 inch piece ginger. 1 large cup sour curds. 5 green chillies. 5 flakes garlic. 1 tblsp. Each of garam masala and ground cumin seeds. 1 tsp. Chilli powder. 1 small onion. 150 grams melted butter. A few drops orange red colour. Salt to taste.

Grind onion, ginger and garlic and papaya to a very smooth paste. Beat the curds nicely with butter and then stir in the ground paste, spices. Salt and enough colour to give the mixture a deep orange colour. Make deep slits on the chicken with the help of a sharp knife and rub the mixture thoroughly inside and out. Set it aside for about 10 hours. Then thread the chicken on a skewer and put it into the tandoor. The word tandoor means an over. It is a large, long earthenware pot embedded in clay and earth. Charcoal is put inside and the tandoor is made very hot, the chicken is then put inside on skewers. The chicken cooked in tandoor is superb and remove after the chicken is three fourths done. Then fry till done in butter and return to tandoor for 3 to 4 minutes before serving. Garnish with raw onion rings, rings of lime and serve with green chutney. In case you do not have tandoor, then grill on a charcoal fire till three fourths done, then fry in lots of butter till done and return to grill for 3 to 4 minutes longer. If this too is not possible, then cook in over till done. This chicken is very delicious and it tastes heavenly if accompanied either by tandoori roti or batura or khamiri puri.

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