Tandoori Chooza Recipe

Ingredients

• Full Chicken (650 gms) - 1 no
• Salt - to taste
• Red Chilli Paste - 20 gms
• Lemon Juice - 2 lemons
• Yoghurt - 100 gms
• Ginger Paste - 15 gms
• Garlic Paste - 10 gms
• Cummin Powder - ½ tsp
• Cream - 30 gms
• Saffron - a pinch
• Rose Petal Powder - ½ tsp
• Shahi Jeera - ½ tsp
• Green Cardamom Powder - ½ tsp
• Black Cardamom Powder - ½ tsp
• Clove Powder - ¼ tsp
• Cinnamon Powder - ½ tsp
• Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
• Black Pepper Corn - 1 tsp
• Fennel Seed - ½ tsp
• Mace - ½ tsp
• Nutmeg - 1 gm
• Orange Colour (Bush) - to colour
• Oil - 40 gms

How to make Tandoori Chooza

1. Take the full chicken and wash thoroughly.
2. Slit the flesh evenly on all sides and break the joints to make 4 pieces.
3. Rub in salt, red chilli paste and lemon juice and leave aside for 2 hours.
4. Whip the yoghurt, add all the ground spices and marinate the chicken in this for 2 hours.
5. Place in an oven at 230o C.
6. and roast, basting (brushing) with the oil regularly till done.
7. Turn the chicken well so as to cook all the sides.
8. Serve hot.