Recipes
Lunch
Tandoori chicken rice bowl with cucumber raita
Yogurt-marinated, tandoori-spiced chicken thighs with basmati rice, a tomato and onion salad and cool cucumber raita.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cooking
- 25 min
Per serving
571 kcal
- Protein
- 46 g
- Carbs
- 64 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fibre
- 4 g
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- Chicken thighs, boneless, skinless, cut into large pieces 750 g
- Plain Greek yogurt (2%), divided 500 g ≈ 2 ¼ cups
- Lemon juice 3 ½ tbsp 50 g
- Garlic, grated 5 cloves 15 g
- Fresh ginger, grated 1 ½ tbsp 10 g
- Paprika 1 ½ tbsp 10 g
- Ground cumin 1 ½ tbsp 10 g
- Ground turmeric 1 ½ tsp
- Chili powder 2 tsp
- Salt ¾ tsp
- Olive oil 1 ½ tbsp 25 g
- Basmati or white rice, dry, basmati, rinsed 300 g ≈ 1 ½ cups
- Cucumber, grated 350 g ≈ 3 ¼ cups
- Tomatoes, diced 300 g ≈ 1 ¾ cups
- Onion, red onion, thinly sliced 100 g ≈ ¾ cup
- Fresh cilantro, chopped 25 g ≈ 1 ½ cups
Steps
- Preheat the oven to 220°C (425°F) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Mix 40 g of the yogurt with the lemon juice, garlic, ginger, paprika, cumin, turmeric, chili powder and most of the salt, then coat the chicken in it.
- Spread the chicken on the sheet, drizzle with the oil and bake for 20–22 minutes, until charred at the edges and 74°C (165°F) inside.
- Meanwhile, bring the rice and 120 ml (½ cup) water to a boil, then cover and simmer over low heat for 12–15 minutes, until the water is absorbed.
- For the raita, squeeze the grated cucumber dry and stir it into the remaining yogurt with the last pinch of salt.
- Fill a bowl with the rice, chicken, tomato, red onion and cilantro and serve the raita on the side.
Tip: Marinate the chicken the night before for deeper flavour; once cooked it keeps 3 days in the fridge.
No pork or alcohol. Choose halal meat if you eat halal. Nutrition is worked out from USDA FoodData Central values and is an estimate.
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