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Mrs S bought me a tandoori kit for my birthday. It comprises a cast iron skillet with wooden coaster, various marinades, skewers etc.. Now when I've seen this served in an Indian restaurant the chicken comes on a bed of sizzling chopped onions.
My question - how do you cook the onions? In with the chicken? Add to the skillet towards the end of cooking?
Any tips appreciated.
God I'm hungry just thinkng about it...
A tandoor is a little clay oven... sounds like you got a fajita kit there mate 😉
I would in a lls eriousness treat it a s such, bung it all in the skillet together
fry them on the skillet with butter or Ghee if you're feeling authentic the fat/juice from the sauce should flavour them.
Sorry - I should have said tandoori [i]serving[/i] kit.
So onions in all through the cooking time for the chicken?
How are you cooking the chicken?
The skillets are meant to go on a flame thats why the contents shizzle. Usually the chicken is cooked in a Tandoor (clay oven). The onions can be put in the skewer and cooked or fried then put on.
So yes if you're grilling the chicken all through, as they'll take the flavour and give the chicken a bit as well.
Just checked in 'the curry secret' and it looks as if you pre heat the dish so its sizzling hot (about five minutes)
Then take off heat and add sliced onion.
Put already cooked chicken on top of onion and add melted ghee (1tbsp) onto side of dish.
Then squirt of lemon juice onto the onions for extra sizzle.
In restaurants they normally just chuck a bit of water on before bringing the dish out for the 'authentic' sizzle BTW.
In restaurants they normally just chuck a bit of water on before bringing the dish out for the 'authentic' sizzle BTW.
Yup - first time I actually saw them do that I somehow felt disappointed.... I know, I really should get out more... 😉
The tandoori plate I had you preheated the oven to full temp, then put the plate in for 5-10 mins, being it out slap on the chicken pop it back in the over which is then turned down. Turn the chicken over halfway through cooking and then chuck the onions on.
All a bit vague as the wife put it straight in the sink one night and it it didn't like that.
Hobster's advice was perfect.
Heated the skillet on the gas ring till smoking, cut the gas, chucked on a knob of butter and the onions and put the cooked chicken on top. The lemon at the end is a great tip. You get a great noise and a lovely complementary flavour.
Ah crap maybe that is what I did, been so long I foget.
Actually yeah that was it sat the skillet on the gas ring direct, just don't let the wife chuck it in the sink full of water straight after. It makes an impressive bang.