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Recipe: Tandoori Chicken with Homemade Yogurt

Try this mouth-watering recipe for tandoori chicken made with your very own homemade yogurt!



Ingredients:

4-6 whole, fresh chicken legs, preferably local and organic
1 tbsp garam masala
2 tbsp fresh grated ginger
2 tbsp fresh grated garlic
1 tbsp cumin
1 tsp chili pepper
4 tbsp fresh lime juice
1 cup yogurt (whole milk)
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp vegetable oil

Score the chicken legs by making small cuts in the skin. This allows the flavors to permeate.

Heat the oil in a large frying pan until it's shimmering hot, then add the garlic and ginger. Saute until fragrant, about a minute. Add the garam masala, cumin, and chili powder, and stir until a paste forms.

Divide the paste into two large bowls. To one, add the lime juice. To the other, add the yogurt. Stir to combine.

Add the chicken to the bowl with the lime juice in it. Use your hands to coat every surface of the chicken legs, massaging the seasonings into the skin.

Let chicken rest in coating for one hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil, and set a wire rack on top.

Place chicken in bowl with yogurt and coat evenly.

Bake chicken on rack over cookie sheet for 25 minutes, or until interior of chicken registers 130 degrees F.

Remove chicken from oven. Change oven setting to broil, and return chicken to oven, broiling on the middle rack until nicely browned and crisp but not charred. Turn chicken over and brown the other side. When interior of chicken registers 175 degrees F, remove from the oven and tent with foil.

Serve alongside basmati rice with chutney and daal. Enjoy!