Tandoori chicken

Tandoori chicken recipe – One of the world famous tandoori recipes is this Indian chicken starter that has its roots from the Mughali cuisine of the Mughal era. This chicken tandoori recipe can be used to grill drumsticks or boneless fillets to make kababs. I am sharing the recipe to grill in oven or on stove top/ gas stove.



This mouth watering delicious chicken is well known as murgh tandoor or tandoori murgh, murgh meaning chicken and tandoor is a clay oven in which the spice and yogurt marinated chicken or meat is grilled. We get to see little variations to the authentic recipes such as addition of chickpea flour or besan etc which adds aroma to the appetizer. This is done mostly to the tangri or tangdi kabab meaning the legs.

Today I am sharing an easy recipe to make a restaurant style tandoori chicken in an oven & on gas or stove top without using color or butter, making this a low fat chicken starter. I have not charred the meat, I do not suggest eating charred meat as it is dangerous to health.

This tandoori chicken recipe yields spicy chicken drumsticks or kababs that are soft and juicy with all the flavors of spices infused. These are spicy but not hot, even kids can enjoy them.

You can use store bought / ready made tandoori masala, however I have never used one to suggest. All the ingredients