How To Make Crispy Chicken Lollipops At Home From Scratch With 10 Easy Steps

Chicken lollipop recipe – Learn how to make restaurant style delicious & crispy chicken lollipops at home from scratch with 10 easysteps. Chicken lollipop(lollypop) is one of the most popular chicken wings starters prepared in Indo-Chinese cuisine. These fried wings are juicy and flavourful from the inside and superbly crunchy on the outside. Served with a spicy red schezwan sauce or sweet chilli garlic dip. Quick & easy to make at home with great taste! Even a good way to use up leftover chicken parts too.

Chicken lollipops are basically, deep fried batter coated crispy chicken wings pieces. Those chicken pieces are called chicken drumettes and chicken wingettes. In Indian Chinese restaurants, this dish is made in 2 ways: simply coated in a batter, deep fry in oil and served or after frying tossed in a sauce and served. Today I am presenting the first one, only a fried version no tossing in sauce so it is dry and crispy from the outside but tender from the inside.

For making this chicken lollipop, chicken lollypops pieces are first marinated in tomato ketchup, red chili sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, and a few more regular spices with ginger-garlic paste. Then made a smooth batter with all-purpose flour cornflour, and red food colour (optional) water to coat the pieces. Then simply deep fry it to get it perfect. Here I make it without MSG(Monosodium glutamate/Ajinomoto).

However, If you want to make Drums of heaven, then toss or stir fry these fried chicken lollipop wings in spicy schezwan sauce or sweet chilli garlic sauce (described as a dipping sauce in my recipe).

Both recipes are so scrumptious. As if the deep-fried lollipop is dry so making more crunch. On the other hand, its tossed version is a little more hot and spicy. Even the tossed lollipops need to eat quickly before their cover gets soggy and loses its original taste. It is quite close to our dry chilli chicken recipe.

Due to deep-frying, along with crispiness, it contains more oil and high calories. So if you do not want to consume more calories or have any health issues, use less oil and shallow fry these lollypops and enjoy. Even you can bake it in an oven or use an air fryer to cut down the total calories that come from oil frying.

Serve it as a starter or appetizer just before dinner or with a meal or enjoy it as party snacks. Trust me, your family will simply love it mainly kids, for sure.

You will love this homemade chicken lollipop! So easy to make & taste amazing! So Make these chicken lollipops at home today! Let me know your valuable feedback in the comment section below.

Serve it as a starter or appetizer just before dinner or with a meal or enjoy it as party snacks. Fun snacks that kids love. A good way to use up leftover chicken parts.

You may also check some of the other Indian and continental chicken starters from my website.

Fried Chicken Tenders,

Tandoori Chicken

Chicken Pakora

Even you may share your valuable feedback about this recipe in the comment section below. 

Instruction

How To Make Chicken Lollipops recipe (With 10 easy Steps)

How To Marinate

1. First, wash and clean the chicken lollipop pieces, fully discard the water, and keep it in a mixing bowl.

2. Add 1 tsp ginger, 2 tsp garlic paste, 3/4 tsp red chilli sauce, 1 tsp soya sauce, 1.5 tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp pepper powder, 2 tsp tomato ketchup, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp vinegar, then mix it well altogether. Cover the bowl & marinade for 1 hour.

Batter Making

1. Once the marination is ready, in another mixing bowl, add 6 tbsp all-purpose flour (plain maida), 5 tbsp cornflour, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder, and mix it well. 

2. Then start adding water(use 1/2 cup water) to the mixture in a few batches to get a smooth creamy batter with the right consistency. (As shown in the pic below)

3. Once the batter is done, add a pinch of red food colour (optional), and again mix it well. 

How to fry chicken lollipops

1. Add the marinated lollipop pieces to the batter, and mix it thoroughly. Keep it aside.

2. In the meantime, heat a deep fry pan on medium flame and add a generous amount of vegetable oil suggested for deep frying. Let the oil release smokes.

3. Once the oil gets hot, take out the chicken from the batter, first remove the excess batter, and then put it into the oil. Fry it on low to medium flame.

4. Thoroughly fry the lollipops from all sides until it gets golden brown in color. Remove it from the pan.

5. Chicken lollipops are ready, I serve them with my homemade hot & spicy red chilli garlic dip (or momo chutney) or schezwan sauce. I wrapped the bones with aluminum foil though it is totally optional.

Tips & tricks for Beginners

• Cleaned chicken wings are not easily available in local markets. However, check out your nearby chicken shops or a few specific online apps that are ready to deliver the perfect lollypop pieces at a reasonable price.
• Even you may request the butcher to make the pieces of lollipops. If those particular chicken lollipop pieces are not available around, you can even make this recipe with chicken drumstick pieces too by applying the same method of frying.
• While making the batter, don’t add the whole water at a time. Slowly mix it into a few batches.
• Using red food colour is optional. Food colour adding method is most popular in street side fast food counters, dhabas and restaurant kitchens just to make an attractive look. However, you can skip this step.
• Do not fry the lollipops on a high flame of the oven. Otherwise, the chicken will not be cooked from the inside and its cover will immediately get brown.
• If you store the lollipop pieces in the freezer, before making the fries keep them out from the freezer. Do not make it with frozen pieces. First, let the ice melt from the chicken pieces and let them come to normal room temperature then only start to prepare.