Recreate authentic Indian food at home that you had always relished in expensive Indian restaurants. Yes, it is hundred percent possible with the help of traditional Indian clay oven also popularly known as Tandoor.
Tandoori chicken from the range of Indian dishes has become world famous today and most of the renowned Indian restaurants serve it. But as much the taste of the dish is amazing the price of it is equally expensive and most of us cannot afford dinning out for having it in dinner every other day. But cooking this dish at home is neither difficult nor expensive. All you need to cook Chicken tandoori at home is pieces of chicken, Indian spices and herbs and a clay oven.
How to prepare chicken tandoori at home?
You will need chicken drum sticks, spices like salt, turmeric, red chilli powder, fenugreek, garam masala, curd, lemon, garlic paste and a little bit of oil. This dish can be cooked in gas or electric oven also but if you want the taste of the dish just like the way you have tasted in restaurant, cook it in clay oven Tandoor.
Make few deep cuts on washed and wiped chicken drum sticks and smear a mixture of salt, red chilli, turmeric and lemon all over it. Now leave it aside for five minutes. This mixture will break the protein in meat and will make it tender. Now make a mixture for marinating with curd, dried fenugreek, garlic paste, salt, turmeric and garam masala. Cover the drumsticks that are tender enough now with this mixture, put it into the fridge and let it set for six hours. Now we need to preheat our clay oven.