This is my third recipe for that red-dyed chicken in the restaurant. Garnish with thin-sliced onion and bell pepper, perhaps on a bed of thin-shredded cabbage.
5 lb | chicken legs or thighs, slashed deep |
4 tbsp | garam masala |
2 tbsp | Kashmiri chili powder |
— | lemon juice |
½ cup | full-fat yogurt or coconut cream |
2 | cloves garlic |
1" | ginger sliced paper thin |
— | red food coloring |
Cut gashes in chicken, marinate in above for thirty minutes to a couple of hours. Roast under broiler or over grill until slightly blackened.
For garnish...
1 large | white onion, sliced in rings |
1-2 | green bell peppers, sliced in rings |
— | salt |
— | high heat oil to blacken onion and pepper slices slightly |
— | lemon wedge per person |
...or set aside to piece off from bones, in roughly 1" cubes and mix into tikka masala.