Interesting facts about tandoori chicken
Most of us who visit modern restaurants often must know the name of tanduri chicken but very few of us know about the certain fact related to this dish. Tandoori chicken is cooked on a clay oven and you need to marinate the boneless chicken breasts with yogurt and other spices before an hour to cook tandoori chicken.
However, to know the tandoori chicken recipe, you can search them online. There are ample websites available where you can find tandoori chicken recipes. But you cannot make it without a clay oven because the authentic taste of tandoori chicken cannot be possible on barbeque grills or gas oven. Tandoori chicken is a tasty dish that is served in party dinner in the western countries like England, and you can find many restaurants in India and Pakistan that serve authentic tandoori chicken.
Health benefits of tandoori chicken:
As we know that yogurt is very nutritious and we get zinc, potassium and vitamin B12 from yogurt. Even yogurt can help us to digest heavier foods faster. But do you know that yogurt can help you to build you six-packs? Most of the body builders eat tandoori chicken before an hour of their gym, because it can provide instant energy, proteins, calories and vitamins to your body. Calorie is harmful for your heart, but you cannot continue your exercise without calorie because it gives you extra energy during your exercise.
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Apart from that, chicken is a good source of vitamin, carbohydrate and proteins. When you cook chicken on a clay oven you can retain its proteins and also the nutrition level. So tandoori chicken is a healthy option for your body, and you can reduce your weight and build your mass muscles by having tandoori chicken every day.
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Tandoori chicken has a unique taste because you need to marinate the chicken with a special tandoori masala. In this case, you need to mix lots of spices like, garam masala, Kashmiri red chili powder, turmeric powder, garlic, and ginger and food colors. Adding lemon juice in tandoori chicken recipe makes it more delicious.
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Tandoori chicken is always prepared with fresh ingredients and you need to use clay oven to prepare tandoori chicken. Today, restaurants use cylindrically shaped metal ovens to prepare tandoori items because clay oven is no more available in the market. It is quite impossible to maintain a clay oven in your house, and you can make tandoori chicken on barbeque grills at your home. But, to get the authentic taste of tandoori chicken, you must visit a restaurant that uses clay oven.
Tandoori chicken is easy to digest. But, to make it healthier you can serve it with salad and soup. Vegetable soup works as an appetizer and it helps you to digest the whole dish in a less time.
