Chef Rohan Desai's low-cal whole tandoori chicken
Really thrilled to feature one my closest friend's recipe as the first guest contribution in my blog. Thanks Rohan. I look forward to more of your additions. Replacing butter with olive oil makes a whole lot of sense in cutting those extra calories. Good for pseudo weight watchers like me!
To prepare this:
To prepare this:
- Wash, clean and dry the chicken with paper towels. Make slits.
- De-seed and boil dry red chillies (uses Kashmiri ones for more color) in a little water and blend it to a thick paste.
- In a mixing bowl throw in some powdered garam masala, cumin, coriander, turmeric and kasuri methi. Add olive oil, the chilli paste, juice of two lemons, ginger-garlic paste and salt.
- Drop the whole chicken into this bowl and give it some love inside-out. Make sure it is well coated.
- Refrigerate overnight.
- Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Place it directly on your clean oven rack and let it cook for 35 mins, basting with little olive oil once in a while.
- Lastly, make sure it looks as delish as Rohan's pic!
I might try preparing this with some chicken breast pieces to make it even healthier.
Are you sure cooking time is only 35mins?
ReplyDeleteErm.. let me ask the chef and get back to you :)
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