Chicken Lollipop

Chicken Lollipops are one of my favorite Indian Chinese dishes. If these babies were not fried, I would make them everyday. Perhaps I could bake them next time!!


Ingredients and Method:

Step 1: 4 chicken wings, makes 8 lollipops. Wash, pat dry and skin the chicken wings. Make chicken lollipops ** See below.

Step 2: Marinate the chicken in the following ingredients.  Rub well using your hands and set aside for 1 hour.

1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp vinegar
3/4 tsp soy sauce
Pinch of red food coloring
1 tsp ketchup
1 tsp chilli garlic sauce or sambal olek

Step 3: When ready to fry, make a batter with the following ingredients:

4  tbps corn starch
2 tbsp all purpose flour
Salt and Black pepper
1/2 of beaten egg
Make a thick batter set aside.

Step 4: Heat oil and when hot turn to medium heat.  Fry the lollipops by dipping in the batter. Fry it until browned on medium heat. Do not rush this process because the chicken will remain uncooked on the inside. Set aside on a paper towel. Reserve any batter that remains.

Step 5: Making the sauce.

1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 finely chopped small red onion
4 scallions, white portion and green portion separated
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp green chilli sauce
1 tbsp red chilli sauce
1 tbsp chilli garlic sauce
1 to 2 tbsp ketchup
Salt/Sugar
Remainder of the batter: By now the batter will thicken up quite a bit, add some cold water and whisk with a fork.

Heat oil.  When really hot, add the ginger garlic. Stir right away so that it doesnt burn. Add the chopped red onion and white portion of the scallions. Keep working your spatula.  Add the green part of the scallions.  When slightly cooked, add the soy sauce, green chilli sauce, Red chilli sauce, chilli garlic sauce or sambal olek, ketchup, salt, and pinch of sugar. Keep the heat on high and keep working your spatula. at this point, i added remainder of my batter that I mixed with water to the pan. The contents will thicken right away when you add the cornstarch.  So add a little more water and keep working your spatula. I added a little more red food coloring at this point because the color was brownish at this point. Adjust seasonings as per your taste.

Add the lollipops to this sauce and toss gently. Serve the lollipops hot with remainder of the sauce on the side.

Note: The thing to remember with Indo Chinese food is that you have to follow your taste when adding these ingredients using this recipe as a template. Garnish with some green onions.



How to make Chicken Lollipops:
1. Cut the chicken wings at the joint
2. Remove the skin
3. Using a knife gently loosen the fibers and muscle attached to the top of the chicken. When loosened, push the meat down with your fingers to make a ball at the end.
4. For the part of the wing that has two bones, remove one bone off. And then follow Step 3 again.

4 wings will give you 8 lollipops!