Yogurt Spicy Chicken
 
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This Simple Grilled Spicy Yogurt Chicken Recipe has a few ingredients in the marinade that makes it juicy, flavorful and absolutely delicious. It's the best grilled chicken I've made. You’ll make this recipe again and again!
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Recipe type: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • Chicken breasts- 2
  • 1 cup thick sour yogurt(not the greek kind)
  • 2 tsp red chilli powder
  • ½ tsp white pepper
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 1 tbsp chickpea flour
  • 2 tbsp fresh ginger garlic paste
  • ⅓ tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Cucumber Mint Chutney
  • ½ gerkin cucumber or 1 Indian cucumber(seeds taken out) or 2 mini cucumbers
  • 1 bunch or 1 cup packed mint
  • 2-4 green chilies
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp olive oil
  • Steel skewers or wooden. If using wooden, soak in cold water for an hour or two before skewing it.
Instructions
  1. Clean the chicken and cut it into 2 inch cubes and dry it very well and add it to a large bowl.
  2. Add yogurt, chili powder, white pepper, garam masala, ginger garlic paste, chickpea flour,, oil and turmeric powder and salt. Massage everything very well with your hands. This process of massaging it for couple of minutes with ensure that you are breaking the protien up and making the chicken more juicy after it's baked. Cover the bowl and marinate it for at least 6 hours or overnight.
  3. When you are ready to grill or bake, skewer it tightly. Put it on a hot grill which is at about 450 degrees and grill it for about 2 minutes on each side and close and cook for 10 minutes. Once it is cooked, hit it with a squeeze of lemon juice and serve it as is or you can serve it with naan and rice.
  4. Alternatively, In the oven, you will have to bake it at 450 degrees for about 20 minutes.
  5. Serve with onion, green chutney and a generous drizzle of lemon juice.
Chutney
  1. Put all the ingredients for the chutney in a blend and blend until a smooth paste.
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2018/06/28/spicy-yogurt-chicken/