Chinese Chicken Lollipop / Drums of Heaven

Ingredients:

• 5 chicken legs
• 2 medium onion (cut into thin slices)
• 1/2 medium yellow bell pepper (cut into medium slices)
• 1/2 medium green bell pepper (cut into medium slices)
• 1 1/2 tsp. ginger paste
• 1 1/2 tsp. garlic paste
• 50g tomato ketchup
• 1 tbsp. worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 tsp. sugar
• 1/4 tsp. red chili powder
• 50g cornflour
• 1 egg
• 2-3 tbsp.oil
• Oil for deep fry
• Salt to taste
• 150 ml water

For marination:

•  2 tsp. ginger paste
•  2 tsp. garlic paste
•  1 tsp. white pepper powder
•  8-10 dry red chilies (make a paste)
•  A pinch of salt

Making procedure:

Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients from marination list and keep it in refrigerator for 1 hour. Then add cornflour, egg and mix well.

Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the marinated chicken pieces till golden in colour. Remove the chicken pieces from oil and keep warm.

Heat 2-3 tbsp. oil in another kadai and fry onion for 2 minutes on medium heat. Add green & yellow bell pepper and fry for 3-5 minutes on low heat. Then add ginger-garlic paste and fry for a minute on medium heat.

Now add tomato ketchup and worcestershire sauce and stir the mixture for a minute. Add fried chicken pieces, sugar and salt. Stir well and fry it for 1-2 minutes on low heat.

After that add water, mix well and cook it covered for 10-12 minutes on low heat or until it reaches your desired consistency. 

Remove from heat and garnish with broken red & green chilies or bell pepper.

Serve hot with fried rice or chowmein.