Grilled Chicken at home - 5 star style!

Grilled Lemon Chicken @ home

**No griller or oven required!

Serves 2-3

Preparation Time = 1 hour

Cooking time = 20 mins

Boneless chicken                                 ½ Kg

Curd                                                      200gms

Ginger garlic paste                              2 tbsp

(Paste can be made with 1 inch garlic piece and 10 garlic cloves in a grinder)

Red chilli powder                                3 tsp

Turmeric powder                               1 tsp

Garam masala                                     1 tsp

Tandoori chicken masala                  3 tsp

Mustard oil (to shallow fry)              3 tbsp

Lemon                                                  1

Salt                                                        To taste

Onion (cut in blocks)                         1, for grilling

Coriander leaves                                To garnish

Wash and flatten the chicken pieces slightly with the flat of the knife. Put chicken, curd, salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and ginger garlic paste in a bowl and mix with your hand. Coat each piece evenly. Cover the bowl and keep in fridge for an hour.

Now heat mustard oil in a nonstick pan and bring to its smoking point. Now fry the marinated chicken pieces on medium flame till light brown. Take off the pan. Put the chicken on skewers, with alternating pieces of onions. Now remove all the oil from this pan, and place the skewers. Put in the chicken masala and grill the chicken on all sides, till brown and feel crisp.

Plate the grilled chicken on skewers (or without them) on a tray and squeeze a lemon on them. Garnish with chopped coriander and serve hot with green coriander or mint chutney.

P.S. Instead of frying first, you can directly grill on the skewers or without them. Tastes the same, just takes a little more time to cook.