Chicken Tandoori-the last tandoori recipe you'll need

Tandoori chicken, named so because it is meant be cooked in a clay oven (tandoor), is a dish that was born in undivided Punjab. It went on to become one of the most well-known dishes of the Indian subcontinent. It is widely available all over India and Pakistan and everywhere the diaspora has immigrated. Tandoori chicken is also the base ingredient for the most well known Indian dish, chicken butter masala, or tikka masala as it is known in the West.
Tandoori chicken is made using fairly simple ingredients mixed in a marinade with yoghurt, then applied to the whole chicken. The chicken is usually a small bird-under a kilo, dressed and skin removed, although tandoori chicken is now made with wings, drumsticks, boneless chicken thigh (tikka kabab), etc.
The recipe is well known but it is tricky to get the proportions right. Most home recipes tend to use too much garlic and ginger. A good tandoori chicken should not smell of garlic, or any one ingredient in particular. If it is noticeably garlic-y then there was too much garlic. Similarly, the quantity of dried spices need to be just right, otherwise the spices will burn when cooking and produce a strange bitterness.
Our tandoori spice mix has been arrived at after testing many kilos of chicken tandoori because small errors are often not noticeable until you scale up a recipe. If you follow this, you are guaranteed to get a flavourful tandoori chicken.
We are also launching our Tandoori Moshla mix which is even more flavourful because it is made from all whole spices instead of powdered spices that we use at home. The spices are ground fresh every few days and the date of grinding is printed on the label. So you always know how fresh your spice packet is. You can purchase it from the Amar Khamar website here: www.amar-khama..., OR visit their store: maps.app.goo.g...
As with any kabab, the thing to avoid at all costs is excess moisture. This means drying the chicken well before using, draining any excess water out after the first marinade, squeezing all water out of the curd/yoghurt before using (it should be as thick as cream cheese)-do everything you can to not add any water to the marinade. This is even more important for home ovens which are nowhere near as hot as traditional tandoors that can reach temperatures of 500ºC and can retain that heat well because of their huge thermal mass. If you marinade is watery, your tandoori chicken will steam instead of searing.
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Please read the FAQ section on our website under this recipe to help you mitigate that somewhat! www.bongeats.com/recipe/chicken-tandoori

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This is yum! I have 2 questions: 1. Can we use ground bhuna chana in place of besan? Do we then need to fry it in oil? 2. Skin on or skin off chicken? Usually tandoori that we get from shops is skin off. Would like to reduce the fats!

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I have almost similar recipe ( of course I use garam masala and ginger garlic paste from market)….but I never roasted besan till that point that I will try to do now. Kudos to you for adding those subtle details. But try using charcoal grill…at least I find it better.

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We did a three-part series back in 2018 covering Bengali pantry essentials and kitchen tools, if you'd like to look it up. There's also a kitchen tools page on our website!

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so you want to eat chicken without salt or after you eat?

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Can you do a short video on the oven you use

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I love tandoori it's my favourite thanks for making this video ❤

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Chicken tandoori recipe looks so tasty and delicious

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Amar Khamar is a separate Kolkata-based organisation that works with farmers to conserve Bengal's heirloom rice varieties, many of which had been on the brink of dying out. They also source other products such as ghee, honey, bori, achaar, directly from the farming communities they work with. They also have good quality daily-use spices on their website, both whole and powdered, and so they were the perfect choice for us when it came to turning our spice blend recipes into actual products. Amar Khamar is currently also a channel sponsor :)

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Any plans to make the spice mixes available outside India? Maybe at least to the US and UK to start with.

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Skin chara kora jabe ?

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What oven are you using

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Sorry- cannot agree with this being the last recipe I will need. 1. BIG mistake- never use chicken with skin for tandoori(its ok for fried wings) 2. Big mistake- tandoori chicken needs bigger chunks of meat-never tiny flats and drumettes.You should use a cut up whole bird. 3. If you marinate a soft meat like chicken for 24 hours with so much acidic stuff ie lemon juice it will make the chicken awfully pasty and unattractive.The skin will get soggy and the meat pasty -that is a sure recipe for disaster.Should not look so oily either. 4. Don't push the spice mixtures so aggressively-turns people off.Your clientele are more sophisticated-you should be more subtle. Wish you all the best.

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Looks so good! ❤ Just a question, for people who don't have ovens or microwaves, do you think there's any way this can be done on stovetop?

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Thank you. Yes, can be made on the stove too if you take some precautions. Check the FAQ section on the recipe page on our website. Link is in the description box under the video.

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Yes, please see the FAQ section of our website: www.bongeats.com/recipe/chicken-tandoori

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nice recipe, I do not have an oven, how well will this recipe go in an air fryer

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Air fryers are essentially small ovens. Check out the recipe page on our website where we have answered this question. Link in the description box under the video.

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Hi.. Great recipe... Could you please provide a link to the stainless steel bowl you did the marinade in? I looked for it on the bongeats website but could not find it... your one looks quite thick..

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Yes, it's a double-layered one. We're very fond of it, but unfortunately cannot find anything like it again. Ours was purchased at a local shop in Chennai 15 years back! It has no branding or any kind of identifying mark 😕

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@BongEats yes.. I tried searching online in amazon n other sites... bt couldn't find any, this thick.. !! Thanks for the reply .. :)

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Where can I find this type of chicken wings? Are they Arambagh chicken?

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This is our first tandoori chicken recipe.

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Hi..I wish the chicken was spatchcocked & then cooked whole since you used a fairly large tray. Even Tandoor(ing) deboned leg & thigh atleast would have made sense to me instead of wings. Also if you can suggest place where one can buy correct whole chicken for this. Thanks.

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Hi, so I do not have an oven at my house. Can I still make this recipe in a pan? How much of a difference in flavour would that make; and also what can I do to minimise this difference?

[@BongEats]

Please see the FAQ section on our website for this: www.bongeats.com/recipe/chicken-tandoori

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Tempting

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Yummy

[@real-4]

Pls may I know if ur garam masala contains black pepper ..as I am allergic..and if u dont mind, the brand of mustard oil that is best pls.. Thanku

[@BongEats]

The Bengali gorom moshla has no black pepper but our Shahi gorom moshla does. You’ll find the detailed ingredient list on the product page of Amar Khamar.

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@BongEats thanku so much my dear..is the bengali garam masala available in ur website ?

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@BongEats pls may I know a good brand for mustard oil and bengali ghee too pls ?

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Please do let me know your OTG brand name - thank you ❤

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First comment is mine😊 Thank you very much for sharing this recipe ❤🎉... Lots of love from Murshidabad ❤

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Is Amar Khamar available in London UK please let me know

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Not at the moment 😞

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@ I’m coming to Kolkata in August how my I purchase I need these spices in my kitchen

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😋

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What if I don't have shahi gorom mosola, or an oven?

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Shahi gorom moshla can be easily made at home. We have the recipe on our website. We also have specific instructions on how to cook tandoori chicken on a stove on the recipe page on our website.

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Achaari onions recipe please

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how to make mint chutny?

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Posting the recipe for Patrons on our membership community soon: www.bongeats.com/community/join

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Pls show veg items also

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Where do you get the best chicken in kolkata

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Local market :)

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How to make it on a tawa?

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We've added this info on our website: www.bongeats.com/recipe/chicken-tandoori

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@BongEats thanks

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no need to dry fresh mint, just use mint teabags :) there is dried mint in them, right?

[@BongEats]

It is possible to buy dried mint powder too but the flavour is a little different from mint dried at home. Not sure why. Nevertheless, worth trying.