Chicken Lollies

Ingredients:
Chicken breasts - 8
Oil for frying

For marination
Ginger-Garlic paste - 5 tbsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Lemon juice - a little
Breadcrumbs - 1 cup
Orange colour - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste

For batter
Corn flour - 1/2 cup
Egg whites - 2
Kashmiri powder or Pinch Red colour - 1/2 tsp
Water - 3/4 tbsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Ajinomoto - 1/2 tsp

Method:
1. Mix the ginger-garlic paste, chilli powder and the lemon juice to form a paste.
2. Take 8 tender chicken breasts. Clean and remove the skin and debone, keeping the winglet bone intact.
3. With a knife tip make a deep slit along the thick edge of the breast, taking care not to penetrate the opposite side.
4. Open out the flaps thus formed. Gather the flaps at the end of the bone. The bone will now resemble a drumstick with all the meat at one end.
5. Marinate the drumsticks with the marinade. Leave aside for half an hour.
6. Mix the ingredients for the batter to for a smooth batter.
7. Mix the colour with the breadcrumbs to give an orange colour.
8. Heat oil in a kadai. Dip the drumsticks, one at a time, in the batter and roll in breadcrumbs and deep fry over a medium flame till they are all light golden brown in colour.

Spring Chicken

Ingredients:
Boneless chicken (boiled and sliced) - 250 gms
Egg (optional) - 1
Cornflour - 2 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Onion (sliced) - 20 gms
Ginger-garlic paste - 20 gms
Green peas (boiled) - 30 gms
French beans (julienned and boiled) - 20 gms
Chicken stock - 100 ml
Honey - 1 tsp
Soya sauce - 2 tsp
Ajinomoto - 1/4 tsp
Spring onion (chopped) - 10 gms

Method:
1. Beat the egg, cornflour and salt together and coat the chicken slices with it.
2. Heat oil and deep fry the chicken till golden brown and keep aside.
3. Heat oil in a pan and fry the onion till light brown.
4. Add ginger-garlic paste and stir fry for 2 minutes.
5. Add green peas, french beans and chicken pieces and stir fry for two more minutes.
6. Add the stock, honey, soya sauce, chilli sauce, ajinomoto and salt to taste.
7. Cook over low heat till done.

Chicken Lollipops

Ingredients:
6 chicken wings-cut off one bone and collect all the flesh at one end
1 egg-slightly beaten
1 cup cornstarch / cornflour
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp salt oil for deep-frying

Method:
Mix together the chicken, egg, cornflour, garlic and ginger paste, 1 tsp salt and enough water so that the chicken pieces are 'coated' with the batter. Leave thus about 1 an hour.

Heat the oil and deep-fry the chicken wings over high heat to begin with and then lower the heat till wings are almost cooked through. Drain on absorbent paper.

Just before serving, heat the oil again and fry the wings in hot oil till brown, drain on absorbent paper and serve.