DRUMSTICK TANDOORI CHICKEN
Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3
 
Ingredients
  • Drumstick chicken – 2
  • Red chilli powder – 1 to 2 tbsp
  • Salt as required
  • Lemon juice – 4 tbsp
  • Curd - 2 tbsp
  • Ginger garlic paste - tbsp
  • Pepper powder – ½ tsp
  • Garam masala powder – ½ tsp
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
  • Cumin powder – ½ tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
  • Dry fenugreek leaves (kasthoori methi) – 1 tbsp
  • Cooking oil/ spray
Instructions
  1. Wash the drumstick chicken thoroughly in running water and dab it with tissue/towel. Make few gashes in the chicken
  2. Mix a tbsp of red chilli powder, a tsp of salt and lemon juice and make it in to a paste. Rub this paste on chicken and make sure it is well applied on the cuts that had made on the chicken.
  3. Preheat the oven to 420 °F.
  4. Mix yogurt, ginger-garlic paste, chilli powder, half a tsp each of salt, pepper powder , kasthoori methi leaves(crushed with your palms), garam masala, turmeric powder, cumin powder, a tbsp of coriander powder and 2 tbsp of lime juice and make a thick paste without any lumps. Add red color to the marination (always mix food color with little water and add to your dish).
  5. Place the marinated chicken on the tandoori pan, spray cooking oil on top of the chicken and cook for 20 minutes. Remove the pan, turn over the chicken and brush them with little oil on top. Cook for another 10 minutes.
Notes
Try to use thick yogurt for marination in order to get thick marinade.
Recipe by MyEdibleCravings at http://myediblecravings.com/drumstick-tandoori-chicken/