Recipe of Favorite Mex-Inspired Tandoori Chicken

Mex-Inspired Tandoori Chicken.

Hello everybody, it's me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mex-inspired tandoori chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mex-inspired tandoori chicken using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mex-Inspired Tandoori Chicken:

1. {Prepare of bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces, scored 1/4" deep twice on each side (whole drums and thighs or half breast pieces).
2. {Take of yogurt.
3. {Take of medium tomato, finely chopped (if no fresh tomatoes, you can use 1/3 cup well drained chopped canned tomatoes).
4. {Make ready of medium onion, finely chopped or grated.
5. {Get of garlic, finely chopped or grated.
6. {Make ready of kosher salt.
7. {Prepare of sugar.
8. {Make ready of the zest of 1 lime.
9. {Prepare of lime juice.
10. {Prepare of chopped cilantro.
11. {Make ready of achiote powder.
12. {Get of cumin.
13. {Take of dried Mexican oregano (the other kind will do in a pinch, of course).
14. {Make ready of minced Serrano chilies (Jalapeños work as well).
15. {Prepare of oil.
16. {Prepare of green onion, chopped, and a handful of chopped cilantro for garnish.

Steps to make Mex-Inspired Tandoori Chicken:

1. Place all ingredients in large mixing bowl and mix and massage with your hands to thoroughly and evenly season each piece of chicken..
2. Allow to marinate for at least 4 hours, and up to a full day, in the refrigerator, making sure to redistribute the chicken once or twice to ensure that all the seasoning gets evenly distributed again after the chicken and vegetable matter release liquid..
3. An hour before cooking, take the chicken out of the fridge and lay the chicken out in a single layer, skin side down, on a lightly oiled broiler pan, or on a rack on a baking pan or sheet, to bring the chicken up to room temp..
4. Preheat the oven to broil (this usually takes 20 minutes or so), then broil the chicken about 4 inches under the broiler element (yours may be under the oven or right under the top heat element of the main oven compartment) for 8 minutes per side, finishing this step with the skin side up..
5. Turn the oven heat down to 425F and continue roasting the chicken on the middle rack for another 20 to 25 minutes..
6. Serve on a platter with chopped green onions and cilantro sprinkled atop..

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