Tandoori Roast Chicken

Tandoori chicken is a jewel in the crown of North Indian cuisine, the dish we know today being a twentieth-century creation founded on an ancient past. There is evidence of chickens being roasted in clay ovens as early as 3000 BC and the spiced yoghurt marinade has become synonymous with the tandoor oven (though this is necessarily cooked without one). I must give thanks to Roopa Gulati for inspiring my version; she is a spice maestro and the marinade is hers. This is truly one of my favour