Zafrani Dum Murgh

Chicken with yogurt and saffron

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Sanjeev Kapoor

Published 2011

  • About

Chicken that is cooked in a coal-fired clay oven called a tandoor is probably the most common Indian dish available outside India. Here, I’ve added a hint of saffron and then roasted the chicken in a conventional oven.

Ingredients

  • 1 (-pound/800-gram) chicken
  • 1 cup (

Method

  1. Pat the chicken dry. Prick it all over with a fork.
  2. Put the yogurt in a bowl and stir in 1 teaspoon of the salt, the chile powder, ginger paste, and garlic paste. Rub the mixture generously on the chicken, inside and out. Put the chicken in a large bowl, cover with plas