Tandoori Chicken with butter rice
Tandoori Chicken with butter rice

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Put the chicken into the tray. Meanwhile, sprinkle the remaining Tandoori Spice Mixture evenly over chicken; rub in with your fingers. Transfer chicken to a plate; chill until needed.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tandoori chicken with butter rice using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tandoori Chicken with butter rice:
  1. Make ready 4 Chicken breast fillets
  2. Make ready 4 Tablespoons butter, melted
  3. Prepare 7 tablespoons tandoori curry powder
  4. Prepare 400 g natural Greek yoghurt
  5. Take 4 tablespoons plain flour
  6. Get 4 tablespoons tomato purée
  7. Get for the rice:
  8. Make ready 500 g long grain or basmati rice
  9. Get 200 g butter
  10. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  11. Prepare 1 litre boiling water
  12. Get 1 x red chillies (deseeded & sliced)
  13. Get Large handful fresh coriander, chopped

When ready to use, put your rice on to cook as per the packet instructions, and while it's cooking make the rest of the chicken dish. Heat your oil in a large saucepan. The raw chicken is marinated in a mixture of dahi (yogurt) and tandoori masala, a spice blend. It is seasoned and colored with cayenne pepper, red chili powder, or Kashmiri red chili powder as well as turmeric or food coloring.

Instructions to make Tandoori Chicken with butter rice:
  1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees/200 degrees fan assisted
  2. Cut diagonal lines in the chicken breasts and place them in a roasting dish or shallow casserole dish. Pour over 2 tablespoons of the melted butter and then sprinkle over 4 tablespoons of the tandoori spice powder. Bake the chicken in the oven for 15 minutes.
  3. To make sauce, mix together the yoghurt, remaining melted butter, tomato purée and remaining curry powder
  4. Reduce oven temperature by 20 degrees. Take chicken out and pour the sauce all over the chicken and place back in oven for a further 30 minutes.
  5. Now cook the rice. Put butter in to a large saucepan and cook over a high heat until it becomes a golden brown colour. Once it does, add the rice and salt and stir so rice is completely coated. Then add the boiling water and bring to the boil again, stirring continuously. Once it does, reduce heat and continue stirring until all if the water has evaporated. Put the lid on the pan and leave to steam on a low heat until rice is completely cooked.
  6. Take chicken out of oven and serve on top of the rice with sliced chillies and coriander sprinkled over the top.

The skin is generally removed before the chicken is marinated and roasted. Place the butter chicken into a serving bowl, drizzle a bit of extra fresh cream and garnish with green chillies and coriander leaves. This is an authentic recipe for Tandoori chicken. Serve with long grain Basmati rice, cucumber salad, grilled veggies, roasted corn on the cob and finish off the meal with Kulfi (Indian ice cream). Take a large casserole dish and add in the chicken stock, salt, garlic paste, green chilli, cream and milk.

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