Drums of Heaven- Chicken Drumsticks/Chicken Lollipop tossed in Schezwan Sauce/ Kolkata Street food-Chicken Drum Stick / Must Eat Festive Bites during Durga Puja #2
We celebrated Durga Puja a bit
early this year. Rumi, from Basingstoke left a message for me on my Magic in the Oven (https://www.facebook.com/Magic-in-the-Oven-1712207279067424/) page asking if I wanted do the sweets
for their Durga Puja which was on Sunday, 2nd Oct. She wanted Baked
Rasogolla for 100 people!!! My first
response was ‘No way, how is that possible’ ‘100 people’ ‘on Sunday’ ‘in 2 days’
and how am I going to travel from London to Basingstoke!
Well, that scepticism didn’t last
long! One call from Rumi and she made it sound so easy! She encouraged me to
take that leap of faith and take up the challenge. And I am ever so happy that
I did.
I not only made the sweets for
their bhog but also could give a small stall with Kolkata street food - fish
fry, vegetable chop, mutton ghugni and misti doi. And what an outstanding response
I received…the fish fry was polished off before we could blink!
But, what I took away from
that day is how hospitable the entire team of Basingstoke Durga Puja was! Everyone
in the team took effort to come and engage with us and made us feel at home. We
had great ‘mangso bhat’ for bhog and we were also given a nice little packet of
mangso to take back home. Overall a great start to the festive season.
My post is dedicated to the
wonderful people of Basingstoke who made us feel so special - special thanks to
Rumi without whom we would have not met such a lovely bunch of people.
Thank you all. You all rock!
Please check their website http://www.basingstokedurgapuja.com/
Now about the recipe. Drums of
Heaven is actually Chicken Lollipop tossed in Schezwan sauce. Hence the recipe
has two part: 1. making of the chicken lollipops and 2. Making Drum of heave by
cooking the chicken lollipops in schezwan Sauce
You can just make the chicken
lollipops and eat on their own as well.
Ingredients
for Chicken Lollipop Recipe
· 8 Chicken legs
·
1
tpsp Ginger-garlic paste
·
1
Egg
·
2
tbsp Cornflour
·
Salt
– to taste
·
½
black Pepper
·
1
tsp Chilli sauce
·
2
tsp Soy sauce
·
1
tsp Vinegar
· Oil deep frying
depending in frying pan
Method:
· Clean the chicken legs/drumsticks
and keep aside.
· In a different bowl
whisk the egg and then add all the other ingredients to it, except oil and
whisk again.
· Marinate the chicken
drumsticks in this prepared batter for at least 1 hour.
· Once the chicken is
well marinated deep fry the pieces till golden brown. Chicken lollipop is ready
to be served with ketchup if you want
Ingredient for Schezwan sauce:
· 4-5 Garlic
chopped
· 1inch Ginger
chopped
· 1
large Onion chopped
· 3 Green
chillies cut into small pieces (optional, I used them only to decorate so that
my toddler could eat my food)
· 1 tsp
Chilli sauce (or less/more, depending on taste, I used less again so that my toddler
could eat)
· 2/3
tsp Soya sauce
· 1 tsp
Vinegar
· 1 tbsp
Tomato sauce
· Salt –
to taste
· Spring
onions – chopped (for garnishing)
· 2 tsp
Oil
Method for preparing Drums of Heaven in
Schezwan sauce
· Heat oil in pan
· Add the chopped garlic
and ginger and sauté for a minute.
· Add the onion and green
chillies (if using
· ) and sauté for another
minute till the onion becomes pink.
· Add the chili sauce, soya sauce, tomato sauce
and again sauté for another minute.
· Add salt and very
little water to prepare the sauce.
· Once the right
consistency is reached toss the chicken lollipops in the sauce.
· Garnish with spring
onion.
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