How to Make Appetizing Easy Tandoori chicken skewers
Easy Tandoori chicken skewers. These easy spiced tandoori-style chicken mini skewers make great party food, and are so simple to put together. Mix the chicken strips, yoghurt and tikka paste together in a bowl. Lay skewered chicken into baking pan.
Top pita pockets with cucumber, remaining mint and chicken skewers. Make tandoori chicken on your grill! Chicken legs marinated in lemon juice, yogurt, and aromatic spices. You can cook Easy Tandoori chicken skewers using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Easy Tandoori chicken skewers
- Prepare 500 g of chicken thigh fillets.
- It's 1/2 of onion (fine dice).
- Prepare 3-4 of heaped tbsp yogurt.
- It's 1 clove of garlic (crushed).
- It's 1 tbsp of tomato puree.
- You need 1-2 tbsp of curry powder (depending on how spicy you like it).
- You need Pinch of chilli powder to taste.
- You need of Little zest and squeeze of lime.
- You need of Salt, pepper.
- Prepare of accompaniments.
- Prepare of Pilau rice.
- You need of Fresh coriander (garnish).
- You need 2 of lime wedges (garnish).
Tandoori chicken gets its name from the bell-shaped tandoor clay oven which is also used to make naan, or Indian flatbread. 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.
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..
Instead of serving with rice, remove cooked chicken and peppers from skewers and serve in warm. This is the best Tandoori Paneer Tikka in the oven you'll ever make at home! 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.