Tandoori Chicken

You know how Husband and I are food fanatics! As much as we like trying new restaurants, we L.O.V.E. cooking at home. This weekend we decided to go next level. We decided upon roasting a whole chicken in our very own oven!

Being an engineer by heart, your every move starts with research! We combed though Internet for good tandoori chicken recopies, and agreed upon the one from one of our most fav blogger - Pratik from Kha re kha

The recipe turned out to be awesome!! All credit goes to Pratik - the blog owner!

You will need:
Whole chicken, cleaned and skinned
GG paste - 2 big spoons
Yogurt - 2 spoons
Tandoor Masala (I used Everest) - 2 spoons
Chilly powder (optional) - 1 spoon
Lime juice - 2-3 spoons
Food color (optional) - a pinch
Salt and oil

Mix the spices, put yogurt and lime juice to it. Put food color, 2 spoons oil and salt to taste.
Make few slits on fleshy parts of the chicken and cover it with the marinade. Put rest of the marinade inside the chicken.

Marinate the chicken for few hours (we kept it overnight, I know, proud of us for controlling ourselves)

Preheat oven with broil setting (temp 500 F) for 15 mins. Roast chicken for 20-25 minutes. Then flip it and roast for more 20-25 minutes. Once you reach to the desired look, pierce a fork/chop stick/skewer through the most fleshy part of the chicken. Clear juice should be indication of perfectly roasted meat!

Serve it with mint chutney, tomatoes and onions!