Name: Tandoori-Style Roast Chicken
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon ground coriander; ¼ cup fresh lime or lemon juice; ¼ teaspoon each ground cloves and ground cardamom; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 1 onion, cut into chunks; 6 poussins (young chickens) or Rock Cornish game hens, about 1 pound each; ½ teaspoon turmeric; ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper; 2 cups plain yogurt; freshly ground pepper to taste; 2 teaspoons paprika, plus additional for sprinkling; 1 teaspoon ground ginger

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Back to Square One

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1992

About

Pair yogurt with aromatic Indian spices and lemon or lime juice and you have a remarkably tasty classic recipe known as tandoori chicken. The tandoor is an Indian clay oven that cooks food at incredibly high temperatures. (Tandoors are also used in Turkey.) While most of us don’t have a tandoor at our disposal, we do have broilers and ovens. And outdoor grills. Incidentally, yogurt marinades have a tenderizing effect, and this one works wonderfully on butterflied leg of lamb and lamb chops.