About Chicken Lallipop:
Chicken lollipop is a popular Indo-Chinese dish. Chicken lollipop is essentially a frenched chicken winglet, wherein the meat is cut loose from the bone end and pushed down creating a lollipop appearance. Chicken lollipop is a deep fry recipe in which chicken lollipops are marinated with spices, then deep fried, and then toss with sauces. This is a very famous recipe in India. Chicken lollipop is usually served hot with Szechuan sauce. Chicken lollipop is also known as Drums of Heaven.
Ingredients:
- 500-600 grams of chicken winglet, wash, clean, cut and shape them into lollipops.
- 2-3 tablespoons of corn starch.
- 2-3 tablespoons of maida (refined flour).
- Oil for deep frying.
- 1 tablespoons of cooking oil/olive oil/sesame oil to make sauce.
- 1 tablespoon of garlic ginger paste.
- 1-2 eggs.
- 2 tablespoons of dark soya sauce.
- 2-3 tablespoons of Schezwan sauce.
- 1-2 tablespoons of tomato ketchup.
- Salt to taste.
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar.
- Some finely chopped green chillies to taste (Optional).
- Red chilli powder to taste.
- 1 tablespoon of white vinegar.
- 1/2 tablespoon of finely chopped ginger.
- 8-10 cloves of garlic finely chopped.
- Some chopped spring onion greens for garnishing.
- 1 small onion finely chopped.
- Freshly grounded black pepper powder.
- Water as required.
Note: You may increase or decrease the quantity of ingredients depending on for how many people you are making for.
Marination of Chicken Lollipops:
- Take a mixing bowl and add on the chicken lollipop pieces.
- Then, add 1 tablespoon of dark soya sauce, salt to taste, 1/2 tablespoon white vinegar, and freshly grounded black pepper powder to taste and mix well.
- Then, add 2 tablespoons of corn starch, 2 tablespoons of maida, red chilli powder to taste, and break in 1-2 eggs.
- Then, mix all the ingredients well.
- Then, keep the marinated chicken aside for 20-30 minutes.
Deep Frying of Chicken Lollipops:
- Take a kadai, pan, or skillet.
- Then, add enough oil for deep frying the chicken lollipops.
- Then, turn on the flame and heat the oil on a medium to high heat.
- When oil is hot, add the marinated chicken lollipops one by one in hot oil, do not overcrowd the pan.
- Then, deep fry the chicken lollipops on a medium flame for 4-5 minutes or until chicken is well cooked, crispy from outside, and juicy from inside and golden brown in colour. Keep stirring.
- Then, transfer the fried chicken lollipop onto a plate and repeat the same with balanced marinated chicken lollipops.
- Then, turn off the flame and keep the fried chicken lollipops aside for later use.
- These fried lollipops can also be eaten at this stage with tomato ketchup, chutney, or any sauces of your choice.
Making Sauce for Chicken Lollipops/Drums of Heaven:
- Take a wok or a pan and heat on a high flame.
- When wok is hot, add 1 tablespoon of sesame oil/cooking oil/olive oil.
- When oil is hot, add the chopped ginger, garlic, and chopped green chillies to taste and saute for 10-15 seconds on a high flame.
- Then, add on the finely chopped onions and saute on a high flame until it turns translucent.
- Then, add 2-3 tablespoons of Schezwan sauce, 1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce, 1/2 tablespoon of white vinegar, sugar, salt to taste, and 1-2 tablespoons of tomato ketchup and mix well.
- Then, cook the sauces on a high flame for a minute.
- Then, take a small bowl and add 1/2 tablespoon of corn starch and 2-3 tablespoons of water or as required to make a corn starch slurry and mix well. Make sure there are no lumps.
- Then, add the corn starch slurry and mix well.
- Then, cook the sauce on a medium to high flame for 1-2 minutes or until the sauce is thick and smooth.
- Then, add on the fried chicken lollipops and coat the fried chicken lollipops with the sauce nicely.
- Then, increase the flame and cook the fried chicken lollipops with the sauce for a minute.
- Then, turn off the flame and add some chopped spring onion greens and mix well.
- Then, serve this chicken lollipops hot with any sauce of your choice.
