Tandoori Chicken
The Origin Of Tasty & Tremendous Tandoori Chicken
I know how everyone loves Tandoori Chicken. Vasant Shinde is an archeologist and Deccan College’s vice-chancellor mentioned with earliest evidence that Tandoori Chicken was invented in civilization of Harappan back in 3000 BC. His team found ‘tandoors’ at Kalibangan which resembles with our modern day ‘tandoors’. And the team also found physical residue of some bones of chicken with marks of char. Vasant Shinde tell us that ‘It was actually a Harappan delicacy’. Recently, Tandoori chicken got famous by Kundan Lal Jaggi, Kundan Lal Gujral, Thakur Dass and Punjabi Hindus at Moti Mahal in Peshawar. All these are founders of Moti Mahal restaurant. And Mokha Singh has started the restaurant in British India’s Peshawar area which is now located in Pakistan.
In the US, tandoori chicken has started appearing on the menus by time in 1960s. In 1962, Jacqueline Kennedy described to have the ‘chicken tandoori’ on her Rome to Bombay trip. The chicken tandoori was printed in 1963 in the Los Angeles Times as ‘the hostess in search of fresh idea for a party dinner’. And in 1964, a similar kind of recipe was mentioned in Los Angeles Times newspaper only.
Tandoori chicken is the dish prepared by spices in tandoor, roasted chicken marinated in yogurt and a cylindrical clay oven. People are mad for this popular dish in Indian subcontinent. Tandoori chicken has become sought-after in the rest parts of the world.
It could also have as an appetizer or starter, or also as the main course which is frequently eaten along with naan. Also utilized as foundation of several cream curries like the item butter chicken. Tandoori chicken’s local varieties are prepared from rooyi posto in Bengal state which is appeared in in the local eateries. They are appeared particularly between Kolkata and Kolaghat. Drayaganj, Delhi’s Moti Mahal popularized Tandoori chicken in India after independence when it honorably served to India’s first PM of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. And there, it became standard offering food item at official banquets.