• Skip the takeaway and explore your culinary talents this weekend with our one of a kind Tandoori chicken with Roti and Raita. So juicy and full of flavour you’ll never stand in line again!

    Tandoori chicken with roti and raita

    Serves: 4
    Cooking Time: 25-30 min Total Time: 1hr 30 min

    Ingredients

    • 1.5 kg whole chicken, skin removed and halved. Score the flesh of the chicken
    • First marinade
    • 2 limes, juiced
    • 1 tsp Kashmiri powder
    • 1 tsp Maldon salt
    • Second marinade
    • 125 grams double thick yoghurt
    • 4 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
    • 8 cm fresh ginger, grated
    • 1 tsp garam masala
    • 1 tsp ground cumin
    • ½ tsp beetroot powder or “Bush” orange-red powder ( atlas trading)
    • Raita
    • 1 medium cucumber, grated
    • ¼ cup mint
    • 1 cup yoghurt
    • 1 lime, juiced
    • 2 tsp toasted ground cumin
    • To serve
    • 4 rotis
    • Charred lemons
    • Fresh coriander

    Instructions

    1

    LIGHT the fire and prepare your braai grid.

    2

    PREPARE the chicken by scoring it.

    3

    FIRST MARINADE Mix the ingredients together and rub it on the chicken. Cover and allow to rest for 1 hour. (You can start this process a day in advance as well - this will allow for more flavour to come through once braai’d)

    4

    SECOND MARINADE Combine everything and mix well, pour over the marinated chicken and massage for a few minutes. Once the coals are burnt down to a rich glowing red colour, load chicken on the braai grid.

    5

    BRAAI the chicken for 30-40 minutes, turning now and then. The chicken should be tender, cooked through and charred on the outside.

    Raita

    6

    SQUEEZE out any excess water from the cucumber and add to a bowl with the rest of the ingredients. GIve it a good mix and garnish with the ground toasted cumin seeds

    7

    SERVE your tandoori chicken with some roti’s, charred lemons, raita and fresh coriander

     

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