Easy as tandoo-ri-me

[jere7my]

I made "tandoori" chicken tonight, from an experimental recipe in Cook's Magazine. Without a 900° tandoor, the trick is to barely-cook the chicken in a cool oven, then crank up the broiler to turn the outside into a char-tipped, spicy, slightly leathery seal around the juicy inside. The chicken is marinated beforehand in a spicy lime-garlic-ginger-cumin-garam masala rub, then coated in whole milk yogurt mixed with the same blend before going into the oven. Oooo, yeah. adfamiliares made dhal, and I made a basmati fried rice with peas, cinnamon, allspice, and Trader Joe's chili-lime cashews. We could really have used a couple of lassi, but apart from that it was an excellent Indian feast. (And I got to use my cleaver. Schwack! Schwackity thwack!)

I like living somewhere where I can visit the Pakistani grocery on the corner when I realize I don't have any garam masala.

Comments

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

let me say again how much I love multiculturalism. And cities.

[wayman.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping that "And I got to use my cleaver. Schwack! Schwackity thwack!" and "current mood: sore" are entirely unrelated.

Awesome cooking.

Last week at Trader Joe's I suddenly had my first-ever craving for those chili-lime cashews I've seen on the shelf for years... and that was perhaps the first time I've ever seen them not in stock! I'm glad to hear a current report that they're still a Trader Joe's product, given the suddenness with which various items can be dropped from their product line.

[kairon-gnothi.livejournal.com]

I was very sad when the Indian food store here in white-bread suburbia shut down.

[marcmagus]

Ooooh...sounds delicious.

Might I inquire why you didn't make the lassi?

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

By the time I thought of it, I had no way to get mangoes.

[marcmagus]

Ah, mangoes, of course. I was somehow thinking fruitless.

[mst3kforall.livejournal.com]

Sounds delectable! (and only slightly marred by the absence of mango lassi)