Serves for 4

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2 x No. 9 Chickens

200 g carton plain yogurt

2 Cloves garlic, crushed

2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger

1 tablespoon tandoori mix

60g ghee, melted

Using scissors cut through skin of chickens along breastbone.

Using finger (and scissors where necessary), gently ease all skin from chickens, except from wings.  Remove and discard skin.  Cut a few slits, about 1 cm deep, in chicken breasts and drumsticks.

Combine yogurt, garlic, ginger and tandoori mix in small bowl, mix well.  Place chickens in baking dish, brush inside and out with yogurt mixture.

Drizzle a little ghee over chickens, bake in moderately hot oven for 20 minutes, turn chickens, and bake further 15 minutes.  Turn chickens onto 1 side, bake further 15 minutes.  Turn chickens over and bake further 15 minutes or until chickens are well browned and tender.  Brush chickens with ghee occasionally during cooking.