Tandoori chicken

Tandoori chicken

This low-fat curried chicken is packed full of flavour. It's quick to cook and the marinade does all the work - who needs takeaways?

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 15 mins

Low-fat

Method

  1. Mix the lemon juice with the paprika and red onions in a large shallow dish. Slash each chicken thigh three times, then turn them in the juice and set aside for 10 mins.
  2. Mix all of the marinade ingredients together and pour over the chicken. Give everything a good mix, then cover and chill for at least 1 hr. This can be done up to a day in advance.
  3. Heat the grill. Lift the chicken pieces onto a rack over a baking tray. Brush over a little oil and grill for 8 mins on each side or until lightly charred and completely cooked through.

Per serving

171 kcalories, protein 24g, carbohydrate 4g, fat 7 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 0g, sugar 2g, salt 0.29 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2011.

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  • 03 October 2011

    Ay$e commented on this recipe

    nice subtle flavouring..made on bbq with arabic rice

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  • 04 October 2011

    DrMukti commented on this recipe

    Large piece of ginger? Helpful!

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  • 06 October 2011

    roppa rated this recipe

    3 stars

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  • 06 October 2011

    capricorn woman rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very tasty enjoyed by all the family. Agree with DrMukti - what is classed as a large piece of ginger? Each to their own I suppose but would use this recipe again.

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  • 06 October 2011

    Cherry ontop commented on this recipe

    Another successful and easy dinner from GF! TASTY!!!

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  • 10 October 2011

    Argosdiva rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Great, easy recipe. I cooked them all together in an oven dish as I was cooking potato wedges at the same time. Turned out lovely!

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  • 12 October 2011

    Kathy G commented on this recipe

    i made this but whilst the flavour was great, the marinade went almost chalky texture when cooked>?

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  • 13 October 2011

    Lynsey rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Fantastic flavour in this dish, I used a teaspoon of jarred ginger, found this was a good amount, marinaded all day, then put it all together in the oven for half a hour. Served with rice, and will be making again :)

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  • 16 October 2011

    lindeens rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Divine! Very good balance of flavours. I used chicken fillets and fried them on the pan - the results was outstanding.

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  • 22 October 2011

    Lisi rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Easy recipe. Instead of buying so many different spices, I did the lemon bit with some tandoori powder and then marinated it with yogurt (greek or half fat normal yogur, either works the same) and plenty of tandoori. Great recipe.

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  • 25 October 2011

    Daniel rated this recipe

    2 stars

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  • 02 November 2011

    mazcrane commented on this recipe

    I found this recipe far too lemony and bitter, I think using 2 whole lemons and the large piece of ginger did it. Think I'll reduce this amount by quite alot. Didnt enjoy it at all :-(

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  • 11 November 2011

    Karen Wilson commented on this recipe

    Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the pinky coloured sauce being served with it is?

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  • 28 December 2011

    amandafife rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Pleasant but not totally packed with flavour. Would probably do again on BBQ but not bother otherwise.

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  • 28 December 2011

    amandafife commented on this recipe

    Pleasant but not totally packed with flavour. Would probably do again on BBQ but not bother otherwise.

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  • 05 January 2012

    Paxos Girl commented on this recipe

    Karen Wilson - the pinky coloured sauce is a tomato and coriander sauce which was shown in the October 2011 Good Food issue - unfortunately it doesn't seem to have been published on the website!!

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  • 02 March 2012

    Rubitue commented on this recipe

    Agree this is way, way too lemony. I did marinate for about 4hrs which probably intensified the flavour but next time I would use less than half the recipe amount. Also there seems to be a bit muh red onion, it makes the marinade/sauce quite bitty in texture. I served with a curried vegetable side dish and without that it would have been rather bland and also rather dry.

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  • 08 March 2012

    Fluffy rated this recipe

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    02 May 2012

    Gem rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Suggestion - do not marinade this for 24hrs!!! so lemony that it completely ruined the dish. I am going to try this again , but this time marinade for only 10mins as stated on the recipe. Will let you know how i get on.

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  • 02 May 2012

    Bailey commented on this recipe

    Just finished eating this with my bf and we both thought it was great! So many flavours. I didn't have time to marinate, I just cooked it straight away - but judging by the comments here about it going too lemony I'm glad I did! I also used only one lemon - this combination seemed to get it just right. I also more than doubled the amount of chilli powder and am glad I did, because even then it was quite mild- the yoghurt counters the hotness quite a lot.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 15 mins

Low-fat

Ingredients

FOR THE MARINADE

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Per serving

171 kcalories, protein 24g, carbohydrate 4g, fat 7 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 0g, sugar 2g, salt 0.29 g

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