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Tandoori Chicken can be prepared using the whole chicken or large portions of dark meat and white meat. The chicken is marinated overnight in yogurt and seasoned in our chef’s special tandoori masala. Turmeric powder, cayenne pepper, red chili powder and paprika are used to give it a fiery red hue.
Tandoori Chicken is traditionally cooked at a high temperature in the tandoor oven for over ten minutes. This gives it a very smoky and charred flavor, which accentuates the taste of the chicken. The time to cook varies upon the depending on the customer's preference of crispy or tender meat. When the chicken is half done, it can be removed from the oven and brushed with multiple layers of the chef’s special mix of spicy sauce and inserted back in the oven to make the chicken spicier.
| Spice level: | Customers generally preferred Tandoori Chicken mild. |
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| Kids friendly: | Yes |
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| Group friendly: | Yes | |||||||||
| Popularity: | Tandroori Chicken is a very popular item that can be served as an appetizer to snack on with drinks and cocktails or it can be served as a part of a whole meal. |
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| How to order: | Tandoori Chicken can be ordered as a starter to munch on with a beer or a cocktail. It can also be ordered as part of a whole meal. The outer crust can be made crispy or tender and juicy according to preference of the customer. |
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| Complementary dishes: | Naan, Peas Pulav or any other pulav. Tandoori Chicken can also complement other dishes in a whole meal. |
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| Complementary drinks: |
Beer(w/spicy) : Taj Mahal, Flying Horse, New Castle Brown Ale |
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| How to eat: | Since Tandorri Chicken is more like barbeque chicken, it can be eaten with the hands. |
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| Origin: | The story of Tandoori Chicken origins lies with a man named Kundan Lal Gujral. He ran a restaurant called Moti Mahal in Peshawar before the partition of British India. Trying out new recipes to keep his patrons interested, Gujral tried cooking chicken in tandoors (clay ovens) used by locals until then only to cook naans (bread). Gujral was able to cook the tender chickens in these ovens making them succulent inside and crispy outside.After the partition in 1947, Punjab was partitioned with the Eastern portion joining India and western Pakistan. Peshawar became part of Pakistan and Gujral found himself one among many Hindu refugees fleeing the rioting and upheaval by moving to India. He moved his restaurant to Delhi in a place called Daryaganj. |
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