Name: Tandoori Chicken Restaurant style without oven recipe by Swathi Joshnaa Sathish at BetterButter
Prep time: 360 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 380 min
Yield: 7
Ingredients: Chicken leg pieces 7 skinless; Fresh lemon juice 4 tablespoons; Turmeric powder 2 teaspoons; Kashmiri red chilli powder 3 -4 teaspoons; Salt 1.5 teaspoon; Tandoori masala powder 1 tablespoon; Orange food colour ( optional ) 2 drops; Kasuri methi crushed 1 teaspoon; Ginger garlic paste 2 teaspoons; Hung waterfree curd 4 tablespoons; Butter 4 tablespoons; White pepper powder 1 teaspoon

Ingredients Serving: 7

Chicken leg pieces 7 skinless
Fresh lemon juice 4 tablespoons
Turmeric powder 2 teaspoons
Kashmiri red chilli powder 3 -4 teaspoons
Salt 1.5 teaspoon
Tandoori masala powder 1 tablespoon
Orange food colour ( optional ) 2 drops
Kasuri methi crushed 1 teaspoon
Ginger garlic paste 2 teaspoons
Hung waterfree curd 4 tablespoons
Butter 4 tablespoons
White pepper powder 1 teaspoon

Instructions

Firstly , make small cuts on the cleaned chicken legs .
Marinate the chicken legs with lemon juice , half the salt and a teaspoon of turmeric powder . Rub them on the chicken using fingers for better masala penetration .
Cover and rest for 15 minutes .
In a wide bowl , take hung curd .
Add ginger garlic paste , salt , turmeric powder .
Add tandoori masala powder , Kashmiri red chilli powder , Kasuri Methi powder .
Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon white pepper powder .
Add orange colour .
Finally add remaining lime juice . Adjust lime juice and spice levels as per your taste .
Now add the marinated chicken to this second marination masala .
Rub the masala over the chicken thoroughly with fingers .
Refrigerate the marinated chicken legs for minimum 3 hours . Overnight marination gives best result which I highly recommend .
Heat a tablespoon butter in a grilled pan .
Now place the marinated chicken legs along with the masala on the hot butter
Slow grill in low flame .
Drizzle butter on the chicken legs .
Slow grill the chicken legs both the sides . Keep pushing and spreading the masala over the chicken for better taste and colour .
When the chicken gets 70 % cooked , place a hot coal piece on a small bowl . Place that coal bowl in the centre of the grilled pan . Cover the grilled pan and slow grill the chicken for another 5 to 7 minutes till the chicken gets that tandoor effect .
Slow grill till the entire masala gets dried up , until chicken legs gets tandoored perfectly.
Take the coal out .
Sprinkle white pepper powder finally . This step is optional .
Restaurant style Tandoori chicken without oven is ready .
Slurp !

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