Top 8 Tips To Cook The Best Tandoori Chicken
Top 8 Tips To Cook The Best Tandoori Chicken
By Ranita Ray
With its roots in Punjab, tandoori chicken has become a global favourite. It is delicious, filling and healthy. One can include this dish almost in any festive spread. But making it at home often turns out challenging. Apart from having the best recipe for tandoori chicken, with these 8 tips, one can cook perfect tandoori chicken!
Marinate Well
Marination is the key to keeping the meat tender in tandoori chicken. Marinade the chicken in yoghurt and spices for at least 2 hours to ensure that the flavours are absorbed.
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Use Of Tandoor
Use a tandoor oven or a grill to cook the chicken. This will give it the signature smoky flavour characteristic of tandoori chicken.
Microwave Tandoori Chicken
When cooking tandoori chicken in a microwave, the convection setting helps keep in more natural juices than grilling.
Tawa Tandoori Chicken
If you don't have access to an oven or microwave, you may slow-roast the meat in a heavy-bottomed skillet or on a tawa. Keep an eye on it, and it will taste excellent.
Use Of Charcoal
If cooking in tawa, burn a piece of coal, keep it in a steel bowl, and pour ghee. Place it in the pan just when the chicken is cooked and cover it with a lid. It will lend a smokey aroma.
Baste With Butter
If cooking in tandoor, microwave or tawa, baste the chicken pieces with butter or oil while it is cooking to keep them moist and tender.
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Meat Thermometer
Use a meat thermometer for ensuring that the chicken is cooked through. The internal temperature should reach 165°F.
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Don't Overcook
Often burnt tandoori chicken is a result of over-roasting. It spoils the meat. Keep a watch, and flip once in a while to cook evenly.
