Just What the Doctor Ordered

By special request from Julestress (and anyone else who has sampled this dish, the recipe of which I was given by my mother exactly 20 years ago but the recollection of which my mother has none).

Fixin's:

• Chicken breast (cut into bite-sized pieces or huge slabs, your choice).
  
• 1 cup plain yogurt (why she felt the need to specify it should be plain instead of, say, strawberry, I'm not sure).
• 1 tsp. grated ginger (thank goodness for modern grocery stores where they do the grating for ye).
• 1 tsp. cumin (best if you buy the seeds and then grind it yourself because then the spice is fresher).
• 1 tsp. coriander (same as above)
• 1 tsp. salt (or a pinch less, as you prefer)
• 1 tsp. pepper (or a pinch more, as you prefer)
• 1 tsp. turmeric (do you see a theme here for the portions of spices?)
• 1/4 cup cooking oil (again, did she think I would use motor oil?)
• 1 minced onion ("medium," she says.  heh.  we're lucky she didn't say, "just the right amount of onion."

How to:

• Mix the yogurt, oil, spices, and onion in a bowl to tenderize the chicken
• Place the chicken into the mixture and, if in slab form, stab it a bit with a fork to tenderize it some more.  (Yaz, I'm looking in your direction)
• Marinate (yay!  she got it right!  it's marinate, not marinade) for 2 hours or over night
• Bake uncovered in baking pan at 350 degress for 45 minutes.

Final Touch:

• Garnish with cilantro, as you please
• Call me when it's ready.  I'll even bring along my own fork.