Beginners Kitchen: Chicken Tandoori

Tandoori chicken/ Roasted chicken, a popular Indian, Pakisthani and Bangladeshi dish consisting of chicken marinated in yogurt and seasoned with other spice mixture. It is traditionally cooked at high temperatures in a tandoor (clay oven), but can also be prepared on a barbecue grill or electric/gas oven.
Tandoori chicken is eaten as a starter before a meal.

Ingredients:
Chicken leg pieces : 6

For 1st Marinade:
lemon juice : 1/2 big lemon
ginger garlic paste : 3/4 tbspn
salt : 1 tbspn
kashmiri red chilli pwdr: 1 tbspn

For 2nd Marinade:
Thick yogurt : 200 gm
ginger garlic paste : 3/4 tbspn
salt : 1 tspn
red chilli powder : 2 tbspn or as per taste
chat masala : tbspn
vegetable oil : 2 tbspn
mustard oil/ paste : 2 tbspn
Gram flour : 1 tbspn
carom seeds/ajwan : 1 tspn

Method:

Wash the chicken leg pieces, take away the unwanted fats
Make marks or slits on the chicken leg muscles and on the joints with a sharp knife

Prepare the 1st marination with lemon juice, salt, ginger garlic paste and red chili powder in a bowl

Mix properly and coat the chicken leg pieces evenly. apply inside the slits also. Set apart at least for an hour

Meanwhile prepare for 2nd marinate. Take thick yogurt(preferably hung yogurt). add salt, chilli powder, ginger-garlic paste, garam masala powder, chat masala, mustard oil n cooking oil. Heat a pan, dry roast ajwan/carom seeds and gram flour. Roast for few mins till it smells good and add into the marinated mixture.

Make a nice saucy marinade, give a nice mix and apply properly on individual leg pieces. Make sure to marinate inside the slits also .Keep aside again for atleast an hour