Chicken drumsticks with orange flavoured sauce

Chicken Drum Sticks 

Ingredients

• Chicken Drum Sticks  – 6 to 7 
Marinade

• Soya sauce – 1 tsp
• Vinegar – 1 tsp
• Egg – 1
• Ajinomoto – 1/4 tsp
• Pepper powder – 1/4 to 1/2 tsp
• Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
• Corn flour – 3 tbsp
• Maida (plain flour) – 2 tbsp
• Chilli sauce – 2 tbsp
• Colour (orange, biryani colour) – optional
• Salt – as per taste
Sauce

• Oil – 1 1/2 tbsp
• Onion (small, chopped) – 1/2
• Spring onion (chopped) – 1
• Garlic (chopped) – 2
• Green chilli (chopped) – 1
• Salt – as per taste
• Sugar – 1 1/2 tsp
• Orange juice – 200 ml
• Chilli powder – 1/4 tsp
• Tomato ketchup – 3 tbsp
• Vinegar – 1 tsp
• Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp
• Corn flour starch – 1/3 cup (1 tsp corn flour + 1/3 cup water)

Method

• Chop spring onion, onion and green chilli finely. Keep it aside.
Marinating and frying

• Take a bowl and put all the ingredients for the marinade. Mix well. Check the seasoning. Add chicken lollipops into it and mix well. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
 
• Take the marinated chicken lollipops about 1/2 hour in advance before frying. Be careful in adding salt as soya sauce has a good salt content.
• If you want, you can deep fry directly with the marinade. It will give you a crispy texture.
• Heat sufficient oil and when it is hot, drop chicken lollipops in oil very carefully and fry it on medium heat. It will take 10 to 12 mins to cook. Cook until the chicken is cooked well.
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  Place the chicken lollipops in a kitchen towel/paper to get rid of the excess oil.Never fry the chicken on a very high heat. Otherwise, it will become dark soon and the inside will not be properly cooked.
• At this stage you can even serve this as is.

Preheat any vessel, add oil and when hot add onions, spring onions and garlic. Saute for a few minutes until they are soft and transparent. Do not brown them.Orange flavoured sauce

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  Add green chilli and saute for another 30 secs. Add orange juice and cook on medium heat for about 3 mins.
• Add tomato ketchup, sugar, vinegar, chilli powder, pepper powder and salt. Cook on medium heat for another 3 to 4 mins.
• Add few more green spring onions (only green part) and simmer for 5 to 7 mins or until the sauce thickens lightly.
• Stir in between. Check the seasoning and adjust if needed.
• At this stage you can add cornstarch and cook for 2 mins or you can avoid adding it like me. Switch off the heat.
• Pour the orange flavoured sauce over the chicken lollipops and serve.

Notes

• The spring onions which I get in the market is very long and thick. You can use 2 or as per your spring onion size.
• Do not turn the chicken pieces quickly. Otherwise, the coating will get separated from the chicken pieces.
• I have used Tropicana orange juice. You can use any fresh orange juice with no sugar content.