Recipe: Appetizing Tandoori Chicken with butter rice

Tandoori Chicken with butter rice.

You can cook Tandoori Chicken with butter rice using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tandoori Chicken with butter rice

1. You need 4 of Chicken breast fillets.
2. You need 4 Tablespoons of butter, melted.
3. It's 7 tablespoons of tandoori curry powder.
4. It's 400 g of natural Greek yoghurt.
5. It's 4 tablespoons of plain flour.
6. Prepare 4 tablespoons of tomato purée.
7. You need of for the rice:.
8. You need 500 g of long grain or basmati rice.
9. Prepare 200 g of butter.
10. It's 1 tsp of salt.
11. You need 1 litre of boiling water.
12. You need 1 of x red chillies (deseeded & sliced).
13. You need of Large handful fresh coriander, chopped.

Tandoori Chicken with butter rice step by step

1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees/200 degrees fan assisted.
2. Cut diagonal lines in the chicken breasts and place them in a roasting dish or shallow casserole dish. Pour over 2 tablespoons of the melted butter and then sprinkle over 4 tablespoons of the tandoori spice powder. Bake the chicken in the oven for 15 minutes..
3. To make sauce, mix together the yoghurt, remaining melted butter, tomato purée and remaining curry powder.
4. Reduce oven temperature by 20 degrees. Take chicken out and pour the sauce all over the chicken and place back in oven for a further 30 minutes..
5. Now cook the rice. Put butter in to a large saucepan and cook over a high heat until it becomes a golden brown colour. Once it does, add the rice and salt and stir so rice is completely coated. Then add the boiling water and bring to the boil again, stirring continuously. Once it does, reduce heat and continue stirring until all if the water has evaporated. Put the lid on the pan and leave to steam on a low heat until rice is completely cooked..
6. Take chicken out of oven and serve on top of the rice with sliced chillies and coriander sprinkled over the top..