Asian Exotic Second: Tandoori Chicken

Tandoori chicken

Ingredients for 4 people :

•  8 chicken pieces such as chicken thighs , without skin.
• Peanut or sunflower oil for spread.
• 60 g of melted butter or lard.
• 1 red onion cut in thin slices for serving.
• Lemon slices for serving.

For the tandoori marinade:

• 1 onion, cut in big pieces.
• 2 big cloves of garlic.
• 1 piece of fresh, bare of ginger cut in big portions.
• 3 spoons of fresh lemon juice.
• 1 fourth of spoon salt.
• 1 and a half spoons of chili powder.
• 1 spoon of curry.
• A little bit of saffron powder.

Preparation:

1. Use a fork to punch the pieces of chicken on all sides. Place in a bowl without metal and serve.
2. For the marinade, put the onion, the garlic and the ginger in a mixer and mix it until a paste is made, then add lemon juice, the salt and the spices and remove again.
3. Pour the sauce and the chicken and spreaded. Cover the bowl with kichen plastic and marinate in the fridge at least 3 hours, remove occasionaly the pieces of chicken on the marinade.
4. Tempered previously on the oven at 220 degree. Take the chicken out of the fridge. And place in a rack a tray cover with aluminium paper and spread all over the rack some oil. Distribute the chicken in the grill and with a brush spread some melted butter. and bake around 20-35 minutes or until juice it´s clear.

5.Tempered previously the grill on her highest position. Drain the juice that has aculumated on the bottom of the oven track. Spread the the chicken with more butter and place in the grill for about 5-10 minutes, or until the edges are slightly roasted.

Presentation :

Serve with the lemon and onion slices.

Time to prepare it :

10-15 minutes, and 3 more hours to marinade.

25-35 minutes baking.