Recipe 76: Stir Fried Tandoori Chicken ~ Spices n Secrets

For meat lovers, getting a plate full of tandoori delicacy is like heaven!

But trying to prepare it at home is a task. Where from can one built a tandoor at home? How to bring the exact flavor of charcoal?

But does that mean you cannot make it?

I guess not!

Even if the taste is not exactly the same and my recipe is not a way to replicate the restaurant style tandoori chicken, it still is a great snack and does resonate tandoori flavor.

Add a bit of the quintessential red food color and you will be reminded of restaurant tandoori chicken for sure. I, however, chose to not add color because I did not feel the need.

My Stir Fried Tandoori Chicken is a pick-and-go snack for parties or simple get togethers. You can serve it as it is with some yogurt based dips, mayonnaise or ketchup. You can also serve it as a side dish to biryani and naan. In addition, it also makes for great tasting rolls and wraps. Just pull apart the meat from bones and mix in some mayonnaise, chopped onions and stuff it inside a wheat or corn tortilla/paratha/burger buns/footlongs. The options for becoming creative with the finished recipe are many.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo chicken cut into big pieces
200 gms. sour yogurt
2 tbsp. ginger-garlic paste
3-4 tbsp. fresh coriander and mint chopped
3 tbsp. tandoori masala (get on Amazon)
1 tbsp. crushed black pepper
1 tbsp. red chilly powder
1 tbsp. chaat masala (get on Amazon)
salt to taste
vegetable oil for cooking

Method:

The night before marinate the chicken with yogurt, crushed black pepper, red chilly powder, tandoori masala, ginger-garlic paste and 2 tbsp. oil.

Add only 1 tsp. salt to the marination. Rest add at the time of cooking. Too much salt will release all the water from chicken and it will become dry after frying.