Tandoori Marinade for Grilled Chicken

"If you don't have a Tandoori Oven, this is a good, viable alternative to achieve those great Indian spice flavors. This recipe will produce enough marinade for about 20 chicken thighs and/or legs, which are the pieces that I like grilling the best. I usually grill the skin-on chicken over very hot charcoal, getting it golden brown, and then transfer it to a half-sheet sprayed with Pam, cover it with aluminum foil and finish it in the oven at 375-degrees F. for 30-40 minutes. The resulting chicken is moist and flavorful. This marinade is very easy to make. The original recipe came from The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch and called for plain yogurt instead of sour creme -- you can use either. Cooking time includes an "average" marinating period. Enjoy!"
 
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Ready In:
12hrs 10mins
Ingredients:
9
Yields:
2 cups marinade
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directions

  • In a small skillet, heat the cooking oil over low heat.
  • Blend together cumin, curry powder, garlic powder, salt, ground ginger, and cayenne pepper. Pour this mix into the hot oil and stir until they begin to darken a bit in color, about 20-30 seconds total.
  • Remove from heat and pour into a medium mixing bowl. First, whisk in the vinegar, and then the sour creme.
  • Marinate your chicken pieces for 4-24 hours, depending upon the level of flavor you desire.

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<p>I am a retired State Park Resort Manager/Ranger. <br /><br />Anyway, as to my years in the State Park System (retired now), I was responsible for 4 restaurants/dining rooms on my park and my boss at Central Headquarters said I should spend less time in my kitchens and more time tending to my park budget. I spent 25 years in those kitchens and worked with some really great chefs over those years, (and some really awful ones too!) <br /><br />I spent THOUSANDS of hours on every inch of that park and adjacent state forest (60,000 acres) and sometimes I miss it. But mostly I miss being in that big beautiful resort lodge kitchen. I miss my little marina restaurant down on the Ohio River too. I served the best Reuben Sandwich (my own recipe -- posted on 'Zaar as The Shawnee Marina Reuben Sandwich) in both the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky down there and sold it for $2.95. Best deal on the river! <br /><br />They (friends and neighbors) call my kitchen The Ospidillo Cafe. Don't ask me why because it takes about a case of beer, time-wise, to explain the name. Anyway, it's a small galley kitchen with a Mexican motif (until my wife catches me gone for a week or so), and it's a very BUSY kitchen as well. We cook at all hours of the day and night. You are as likely to see one of my neighbors munching down over here as you are my wife or daughter. I do a lot of recipe experimentation and development. It has become a really fun post-retirement hobby -- and, yes, I wash my own dishes. <br /><br />Also, I'm the Cincinnati Chili Emperor around here, or so they say. (Check out my Ospidillo Cafe Cincinnati Chili recipe). SKYLINE CHILI is one of my four favorite chilis, and the others include: Gold Star Chili, Empress Chili and, my VERY favorite, Dixie. All in and around Cincinnati. Great stuff for cheap and I make it at home too. <br /><br />I also collect menus and keep them in my kitchen -- I have about a hundred or so. People go through them and when they see something that they want, I make it the next day. That presents some real challenges! <br /><br />http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/shawnee.htm</p>
 
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