Although this is not the typical bright artificial red tandoori colour, this freshly made, very aromatic Thermomix tandoori marinade is used here with baked chicken thighs, but can easily be used to marinate a whole chicken for roasting, chicken drumsticks, or using smaller cubes of chicken and skewering them for on the BBQ. Apart from chicken, the marinade is also lovely used with skewered and BBQ'd prawns, or to marinate lamb chops or even a whole lamb roast.
The chicken thighs in this recipe can be grilled on the BBQ as an alternative. If you prefer the traditional colour of tandoori, just add a couple of drops of red food colouring to the marinade.
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Ingredients
- 1kg chicken thigh fillets, cut into 3
Tandoori Marinade
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2cm ginger
- 1½ tablespoon ThermoFun Tandoori Spice Mix
- 1 lemon, juice only
- 20g olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 220g thick plain yoghurt
Instructions
- Place garlic and ginger into TM bowl and chop 3 sec / speed 8.
- Add remaining marinade ingredients and combine 10 sec / speed 5.
- Place chicken thighs into a large bowl, add the marinade and combine well. Refrigerate for a min 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 200°C. Line a casserole dish with baking paper.
- Place chicken in dish and cook 30 mins, turning the chicken over halfway through.
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Elizabeth says
Tandoori Chicken for dinner again tonight, just had to come back and tell you how much the family love this recipe!
thermofun says
Fabulous to hear Elizabeth! Thank you! :)
Elizabeth says
Love this recipe! Always have some of the Tandoori Spice Mix in the cupboard and a couple of tubs of the marinade in the freezer.
thermofun says
Thank you Elizabeth great to hear. :)
Amanda T says
hi Leonie, I made this using your Tandoori Spice and yoghurt recipes. As I'm mostly low-carb these days I served it with roasted cauliflower florets and onions (olive oil, salt and pepper, tumeric and curry powder) and green beans. It was just delightful.
thermofun says
Apart from the cauliflower this sounds amazing :D But glad you got a win with it all!
Rebecca says
So far this is my favourite recipe! I'm looking forward to trying this on the BBQ - hope it works!
thermofun says
Apologies Rebecca, I've just seen this - how did it go? I had someone share some skewers a while back and they looked amazing.