Recipe: Perfect Tandoori Chicken (Air Fryer & Pan fried)

Tandoori Chicken (Air Fryer & Pan fried). Make this Tandoori Chicken Recipe in your air fryer with a yogurt-based marinade. It's a flavor-packed, low carb chicken recipe that is super easy to make! Am quite eager to try the tandoori chicken in the air fryer.

This is also a low carb dish, which makes it even more enjoyable! I call tandoori chicken India's best-loved grilled chicken. The secret is in the spices and the marinade which makes the chicken super moist and flavorful. You can cook Tandoori Chicken (Air Fryer & Pan fried) using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tandoori Chicken (Air Fryer & Pan fried)

1. It's 1 kg (200 grams) of chicken.
2. It's 2 pcs of chicken leg.
3. Prepare 2 tbsp of turmeric powder.
4. You need 1 tbsp of cumin powder.
5. It's 1 tbsp of coriander powder.
6. You need 2 tbsp of red chilli powder.
7. Prepare 1 tbsp of kashmiri red chilli powder.
8. You need 1 tbsp of tandoori masala powder.
9. It's 1 tbsp of garam masala powder.
10. It's 2 tbsp of ginger & garlic paste.
11. You need 3 tbsp of roasted chickpea flour or roasted besan.
12. It's to taste of salt.
13. Prepare 1 of lemon.
14. You need 3 tbsp of hung yoghurt (curd).
15. Prepare 5-6 tbsp of butter.
16. Prepare 50 gms of mustard oil.

Traditionally tandoori chicken is made in a clay oven (tandoor) and is very popular in restaurants. Even though I am making this in the Air Fryer I am. Chicken Tandoori - ChickenTandoori is a popular Indian dish made with chicken legs marinated in a mixture of hung curd and spices brilliantly cooked in the Phillips Air fryer using very little oil hence it makes a healthy and nutritious dish. An easy Tandoori Chicken Recipe with chicken marinated in an authentic yogurt-spice blend is baked until juicy and crisp in air fryer, oven, Instant Pot or outdoor grill.

Tandoori Chicken (Air Fryer & Pan fried) step by step

1. Air fryer: At first, cut long slits on the chicken body with a knife, half inches’ depth, four in the front and four on the back. Mix all the dry powder ingredients with hung yogurt, mustard oil, ginger paste, garlic paste, lemon juice and make a thick paste on a plate..
2. Apply the masala paste on the chicken inside and outside of the body and also apply inside the slits. Wrap the chicken with a non-toxic cling wrapper (optional). Marinate overnight, and keep in the refrigerator. After take out from the refrigerator on the next day morning, leave for half an hour before putting in the air fryer..
3. Put in the air fryer, and set temperature at 200° Celsius for 15 mins for one side. After 15mins, take out the tray and turn over the chicken to the other side and apply the rest of the masala. Also apply butter on the chicken, which will make the chicken soft, but it is optional if you would prefer to make it healthy..
4. Take out after 15mins, fire a charcoal, keep a bowl near to the chicken, put the burning charcoal in the bowl, put some butter on the burning charcoal, smoke will come out, cover with a lid. After 5-10min, air fryer fried tandoori chicken is ready to serve..
5. Pan Fried: Cut two long slits on each leg pieces with a knife, half inches’ depth. Mix all the dry powder ingredients with hung yogurt, mustard oil, ginger paste, garlic paste, lemon juice and make a thick paste on a plate..
6. Apply the masala paste on the chicken pieces and also apply in the slits. Wrap the chicken with a non-toxic cling wrapper (optional). Marinate overnight, and keep in the refrigerator. After take out from the refrigerator on the next day morning,leave for half an hour before fry on a pan..
7. Put a pan on gas stove, add some mustard oil on the pan, heat the oil, put the chicken pieces, cook it for 10min on medium gas flame. After 10mins, turn over to other side, cover it and cook again for 10mins..
8. Keep the pan aside, fire a charcoal, keep a bowl near to the chicken pieces, put the burning charcoal in the bowl, put some butter on the burning charcoal, smoke will come out, cover with a lid. After 5-10mins, pan-fried tandoori chicken is ready to serve..

Tandoori chicken is often whole chicken or whole chicken breasts but has become more popular over recent years to make tandoori chicken kebabs. Air fryer chicken is amazing and if you have not checked it out yet, do have a look at our air fryer chicken. Make tandoori chicken on your grill! Chicken legs marinated in lemon juice, yogurt, and aromatic spices. Tandoori chicken gets its name from the bell-shaped tandoor clay oven which is also used to make naan, or Indian flatbread.

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