Tandoori Chicken

Let’s talk tandoori. Put simply, it’s a way of baking meat and fish in a vat-shaped clay pot with hot charcoal in it. Tandoori cooking originated on the North West frontier of India. Here endeth the lecture.

I’m going to be strict now. Don’t go anywhere near those jars of lurid, sunset-coloured tandoori paste they sell in supermarkets. Steer clear, and that’s an order. If you’re using whole joints of chicken, or a whole fish, make incisions in the flesh so that the yoghurt and spice