[geeks] seeking an excellent tandoori chicken recipe

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 26, 2009, at 00:18 , Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> OK I am rather clumsily trying to be a food geek... so far I have had
> some good success with simple soups and some slow cooker meat  
> recipes...
>
> It is time to move on to one of the yummiest chicken recipes, tandoori
> chicken.
>
>> From what I can tell, the secret to good tandoori chicken is  
>> getting the
> yogurt that the chicken is marinaded in, properly surrounding the
> chicken so that the lactic acid etc. can break down the muscle fibers
> and thus give you a more tender chicken.  So a marinade time of 8-24
> hours is good.

Yes...

...but don't forget the tandoori oven, where tandoori dishes get their  
name... :)

It's like stone oven pizza or bread... you can make the same thing in  
a normal oven, but it does not taste the same.

I don't know if a stone oven would be the same or not.

There are places that sell stone slabs to put in an oven, but I have  
no idea if that trick does anything useful or not.  Sounds like a  
gimmick, but maybe it does have some effect.

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