Description
Whole baked chicken is a very simple recipe. Just marinate it and the oven will do the rest of the work for us. Simple nah!!!. In chennai we call it as grilled chicken and in US they called it as Rotisserie chicken.| Ingredients |
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Instructions
You will need:
- 1 whole chicken (5 lbs)
- 1 cup yogurt
- 2 tbsp chilli powder
- 1 tbsp paprika (or a pinch of red colour)
- 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp garam masala powder
- 1 tbsp cumin powder
- 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp white vinegar
- 1 tbsp salt
Step 1:
Wash the Chicken
Wash the chicken with some turmeric powder and with salt.(Removing skin is optional, but i like with skin). Make slots with knife in the chicken, so that the masala will go inside of the chicken also.
Step 2:
Marinate the Chicken
Rub the ingredients onto the chicken and let it marinate for atleast 8 hours. I prefer overnight in a refrigerator.
Step 3:
Bake
Preheat the oven to 350F. Take the marinated chicken out from the refrigerator and let it to come room temp. Then rub the chicken with some more garam masala powder. Transfer the chicken to Aluminum foil or to a baking tray, cover it with a aluminum foil and bake it for 1.5 hours.
Then transfer the chicken to another tray. (Becoz we will get so much of fat. so better scoop out of that fat or transfer chicken to another tray.. Now again bake the chicken uncovered for 15 mins. Turn the chicken and again bake it for 20 mins to get nice brown crispy skin outside.
Handy Hint:
Eat with mint chutney, lemon slices , sliced onion and tomato.. Mint chutney is must to have this chicken. If you are having store bought Mint chutney add some yogurt and some green chillies to that and grind to a fine paste and serve with this baked chicken.
Baking time varies depending on the chicken weight. You can shred the remaining chicken and make it as Chicken chilli parotta, shredded chilli chicken , chicken soups . And You can use to make Chicken pakoda too http://www.spiceindiaonline.com/chicken_pakoda
18 Comments
just baked'm for lunch tode,it was very delicious 🙂 we enjoyed alot.thanxs vijitha for this tasty oil-free recipe.. definetely wud try again…
hi
this recepie is wonderfull.i tried it last night n me and my husband enjoyed it a lot.i was in search of whole chicken recepie from many days n finally i got this recepie which i think i will never forget n continue it till my whole life inshallah.again thnx a lot for this recepie.n now i will make it in my next party to amuze my guests.yehhhh…….
The recipe looks tempting.
But I think the last few minutes, the chicken can be broiled instead of baking, as broiling makes the upper part brown and crispy. You would have noticed that the heat comes from below in case of baking and from the top in case of broiling. So what I do generally is I bake the chicken till its cooked and then dab in a few drops of oil on top and then broil it for few minutes to make it crispy. I do the same when I make puffs too, and it comes out really good.
Anyway, thanks a lot for the wonderful recipe and the nice picture!
Manju, Thanks for ur comment. Regarding broiling.. i have tried to broil in the last few mins. But for broiling we should apply oil. Or else within few mins the outside will turn brown but nothing will happen in the inside. Since we cant adjust the temperature in the broiling we should take more care for that. If you are planning to broil 5 lb chicken for last few minutes, better bake it for 1.45 hours and then turn the nob to broil. That will give you a good result.. I haven't tried broiling while making puffs. Will surely try it next time. Thanks for sharing this info Manju… VIJI
hi nice and mouth watering recipe .Viji always ur giving more calorie and fat recipe ,
Hi White.. tx for your comments. Hey this dish has very less calories comparing to other chicken dishes. We are not using even a drop of oil in this dish. This doesn't have fat also. Since all the fat in the skin will come out and then u can throw that water. People who are in dieting also can surely eat this dish. People who like rich dish can apply butter/ ghee in the final stage. I dint apply anything. Hope you got my point ma..VIJI
Hi Viji, Just typed the message any clicked on post comment…then only i saw ur msg to White…We both typed the same things using different statement. Just a coincidence na…
Wow Shan.. really coincidence than!!!!.. Thanks shan.. VIJI
Viji, ithu thaan 'Great minds think alike' ah….ha ha ha
Thats Right shan..VIJI
hi,viji i know about baked chicken i decided to write in ur guest book . but when i saw u r new recipe i wrot e here itselfabout other recipe s like cake with eggs and manyof ur recipes r are having more calories
Hi White, everything is good for health when we eat within a limit. Chicken is high in Protein, low in fat if we remove the skin. Also she didn't add any oil or butter, so it doesn't contains any added calories. During diet we're allowed to eat baked chicken/fish. No doubt you can eat 🙂
– shan
Hi viji, its my favourite:):). sapidura aasaiya toonditeenga.i dont have oven shall we bake this in microwave.if so how?..
abi
Hi Abi, U can do this in macro wave oven and not in microwave. I haven't tried this in microwave yet. We have one other way of doing this. just pressure cook the meat for 1 whistle or 2. Then heat a non stick pan add oil to it then just fry it. You can stuff inside the chicken with boiled eggs, potatoes(like we do for puff stuffing). That will make the dish a very rich dish..VIJI
hi vijitha,
looking good and want to taste it right now…..my 3yr old son saw this and was asking me amma chiken bone senchi kudunganu……will try it soon.
“All your recipes are xllent!!!!”
take care
Sujatha. Very happy to hear mazhalai aasai thru u… Kandipa seithu kudunga. It wont be that spicy.. It will taste very good too.. Hope u will surely like it..VIJI
Wow superb Viji !!! Nice pics. Very tempting. Keep up the great work.
Shan i'm very bad in photography… just kathukittu irukuraen.. Thanks for ur comments..VIJI