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Spicy Chicken Legs

Chicken legs marinated with a spicy red chilli mixture and baked. This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

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Spicy Chicken Legs

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Main Ingredients Chicken legs, Dried red chillies
Cuisine Fusion
Course Snacks and Starters
Prep Time 41-50 minutes
Cook time 16-20 minutes
Serve 4
Taste Spicy
Level of Cooking Easy
Others Non Veg

Ingredients list for Spicy Chicken Legs

  • 4 Chicken legs
  • ½ cup Dried red chillies soaked
  • 2 tablespoons Lemon juice
  • to taste Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Crushed black peppercorns
  • 1 medium Onion
  • 6-8 Garlic cloves
  • 2 tablespoons Tomato ketchup
  • for greasing Oil 1 tablespoon +

Method

  1. Make incisions on the chicken leg pieces and place them in a bowl.Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice, salt and a little crushed black pepper, mix well and set aside to marinate for 5-10 minutes.
  2. Roughly chop onion and put into a grinder jar. Add garlic and red chillies. Grind to a coarse paste.
  3. Add remaining lemon juice, salt, remaining crushed peppercorns and tomato ketchup and grind again.
  4. Add the ground paste to chicken and mix well. Set aside to marinate for 30-40 minutes.
  5. Preheat oven at 180ºC. Grease a baking tray with oil.
  6. Heat oil in a non-stick pan and place chicken legs on it.Cook on high heat for 2 minutes on each side.
  7. Place the seared chicken legs on the greased baking tray. Place the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 15-18 minutes.
  8. Serve hot.