Easy Tandoori chicken skewers. Traditionally made in a tandoor, these tandoori chicken skewers taste great cooked on a barbecue or grill. Thread the chicken onto skewers and place on the baking tray. Top pita pockets with cucumber, remaining mint and chicken skewers.
Tandoori chicken gets its name from the bell-shaped tandoor clay oven which is also used to make naan, or Indian flatbread. The Tandoori-Style Chicken Skewers recipe out of our category Chicken! This is the best Tandoori Paneer Tikka in the oven you'll ever make at home! You can cook Easy Tandoori chicken skewers using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Easy Tandoori chicken skewers
- It's 500 g of chicken thigh fillets.
- It's 1/2 of onion (fine dice).
- You need 3-4 of heaped tbsp yogurt.
- You need 1 clove of garlic (crushed).
- You need 1 tbsp of tomato puree.
- It's 1-2 tbsp of curry powder (depending on how spicy you like it).
- It's Pinch of chilli powder to taste.
- You need of Little zest and squeeze of lime.
- You need of Salt, pepper.
- It's of accompaniments.
- Prepare of Pilau rice.
- Prepare of Fresh coriander (garnish).
- You need 2 of lime wedges (garnish).
Same restaurant style taste, but roasted in a home oven. Honestly, I was a little nervous because tandoori paneer tikka has quite the God like status in our house. We are picky about our tikkas and we don't like to mess around. Tandoori Chicken was the obvious next recipe I wanted to share after the other chicken recipes have been SO popular with you guys.
Easy Tandoori chicken skewers step by step
- Soak the wooden skewers in enough cold water to cover. Mix the onion, puréed garlic, yogurt and other marinade ingredients together. (You could use a paste instead of powder) feel free to add additional spices/aromatics. Taste and season (remember it needs to be quite intense to get a decent amount of flavour into the chicken)..
- Dice the thighs into 1inch chunks and add to the marinade, massage in. Cover and refrigerate for anywhere between 2hours-overnight. The longer the better..
- Thread the marinaded chicken onto the skewers. Grill under a preheated hot grill to colour and char evenly. Serve on a bed of pilau rice, garnish with fresh coriander and lime wedge..
This recipe was actually a mix between trying to stay true to the classic restaurant favorite recipe while making an easy weeknight meal. Top tip for making Tandoori chicken skewers. Tandoori curry paste has a medium hot flavour; if you prefer something spicier use a Madras paste. For a milder flavour use korma or tikka masala paste. Instead of serving with rice, remove cooked chicken and peppers from skewers and serve in warm.