Yogurt and Spices Chicken Recipe

With today’s recipe, I want to take you to the East, while maintaining and preserving the flavors of the Mediterranean tradition.

Yogurt and spices chicken is a dish highly requested by today’s kids, and being a grandmother, I make it very often for my grandchildren.

Easy to make with ingredients we all have on hand, it requires a marinade that can be easily done in the fridge from morning till night or even the night before.

Then we put everything in the oven or in an air fryer and the dish is done, we’ll have a true result

With this recipe, we will have a truly surprising result as the crust that will form on top will enclose a chest of truly succulent and never dry meat.

We will add potatoes to the yogurt and spices chicken because kids like them, but if you want, you can also omit them. However, these should not be marinated, clearly, they should be added only when putting the chicken in the oven.

Even for those skeptical of oriental, therefore not Mediterranean, food, with yogurt and spices chicken I can assure you that they will realize that it is truly an enticing dish because we Italians really like crunchiness in dishes. All accompanied by my roast flavors.

Cost: Economical
Rest time: 6 Hours
Preparation time: 10 Minutes
Portions: 4
Cooking methods: Electric oven, Air frying
Cuisine: Indian
Seasonality: All seasons

426.13 Kcal

calories per serving

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Energy 426.13 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 44.24 (g) of which sugars 4.79 (g)
Proteins 44.35 (g)
Fat 9.08 (g) of which saturated 3.17 (g)of which unsaturated 5.77 (g)
Fibers 8.00 (g)
Sodium 313.25 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 400 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Ingredients

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2.6 lbs chicken, drumstick, skinless, raw (or thighs)
to taste lemon juice
1.25 cups plain yogurt
2 tbsps curry powder
2 tbsps ground turmeric
1 tsp sweet paprika
to taste homemade roast flavors
to taste salt
1.75 lbs potatoes (optional)

Yogurt and Spices Chicken Recipe

Tools

here’s what we need to prepare the

1 Cutting board
1 Knife
1 Baking tray
1 Bowl
1 Plastic wrap

Steps

The first thing to do is to choose chicken thighs with the drumsticks or only the drumsticks. Remove the skin, eliminate the feather remnants, and cut them as in the picture.
Place the chicken in a rather wide bowl with relatively raised edges
and pour the plain yogurt over it, massage and turn the thighs from side to side, then move on to the spices
The first spice I used is my homemade flavors and here I give you the recipe,
passing from the Mediterranean across the sea we go to India, then we go with curry, turmeric, sweet paprika, and five types of ground pepper including white, black, pink, and some other you have of good taste or you can use ground or to be ground pepper mixes.
Now cover this container with plastic wrap and place it in the fridge overnight or during the day depending on whether you need to prepare for lunch or dinner.
Every now and then, turn the chicken over itself to marinate it in yogurt evenly.
It’s time for cooking, so start peeling the potatoes for those who have chosen to use them, peel them, and cut them into pieces of about 1.18 inches, put them first in cold water, rinse them well to remove some excess starch, drain them, dry them and
distribute them in the baking tray along with the chicken thighs drained from the marinade, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil.
If you are diabetic you can replace them with sweet potatoes or celeriac.
OVEN COOKING
Turn on the oven at 356°F (180°C) for about 30 minutes, turn the chicken halfway through cooking, and at this point in the last 10 minutes increase the temperature up to 374°F (190°C) or even 392°F (200°C) depending on the oven to create the crust on the chicken and give it that touch of crunchiness
Do you smell the aroma? Here is the yogurt and spices chicken ready.
Now comes the time to serve at the table. Enjoy your meal
AIR FRYER COOKING
place the chicken and potatoes on the appropriate paper and after preheating, cook at 374°F (190°C) for 15 minutes, then turn the ingredients and cook for another 15 minutes at 374°F (190°C)
Here is the Yogurt and Spices Chicken Recipe ready