Chicken Jana

Tired of cooking the same old traditional stuff, I decided to treat my family with something interesting. This week I picked up my favourite part of the Chicken i.e. Drumsticks and cooked them with my favourite veggies.

I know Chicken Jana is quiet an unusual name. But my hubby decided to name it that as dinner was served right after we were done watching the movie Stree. Yes you guessed it right, Jana is his favourite character in that movie. Hope this demystified the dish name for you.

To know more on how to make Chicken Jana keep reading!

Ingredients:

6 pcs: Chicken Drumsticks

1 tsp: Pepper powder

3 tblsp: Ginger Garlic Paste

1 tblsp: Green Chilli Paste

1.5 tblsp: Tomato Ketchup

12 pcs: Garlic cloves

10 pcs: Cashew pieces

120 grms: Chings Schezwan Chutney

1.5 tsp: Vinegar

1 tblsp: Soya Sauce

1 tblsp: Chilli Sauce

Handful of Spring onion leaves 

200 grms: Button Mushrooms

5 pcs: Babycorn

1 pc: Red Bell Pepper 

1.5 tblsp: Corn Flour

1.5 Cup: Water

2 tblsp: Ghee

Salt as per taste

Procedure:

Step 1- Marinate the chicken:

Thoroughly wash chicken drumsticks and marinate them in a mixture of ginger garlic paste, green chilli paste, salt and pepper. Cover it and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours

Step 2: Cook the Chicken:

In a pan heat some ghee and add the marinated drumsticks along with the residue; cover the pan and let it cook on low flame. Your chicken should be cooked within 15 mins max. Keep stirring it and changing sides every few minutes so that it is cooked evenly

Step 3: Cooking the veggies:

Chop all the veggies (mushrooms, spring onion leaves, red bell pepper, babycorn), Garlic cloves and cashew nuts. In a pan take a tblsp ghee and add garlic and cashew nuts to it once ghee has been heated. Let this cook for half a minute. Add all the chop veggies to the pan, cover the lid and let it cook on low flame. The veggies should be well cooked in 7 mins.

Step 4: Adding the sauces:

Once the veggies are done, add vinegar, chilli sauce, soya sauce, schezwan chutney, tomato ketchup and stir. To this add the cooked chicken with all the residue and keep mixing so that the gravy coats the drumsticks.

Final step here is to add the corn flour and water mixture slowly to the pan. Remember to keep a check on your desired consistency while adding the corn flour mixture. Let it boil for 2-4 mins and your dish is ready to serve. 

You can enjoy this with parathas, make it a little thinner in consistency and serve it with steamed rice.

Hope your family enjoys this as much as my mine did. This quantity would be enough to serve 4 people.

Will try experimenting more things in my kitchen and will post my next wonder dish soon. Until then, happy cooking foodies!

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