Roadside Cafe Chicken – doliska.com

Ingredients

• 6 chicken drumsticks
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil, raw sesame oil, or peanut oil
• 2 tbsp ghee or butter
• 1 tsp Bengali Five-Spice Mixture (page 37), or a scant 1/4 tsp each black mustard, cumin, fennel, fenugreek, and nigella seeds
• 2 whole cloves or generous pinch ground cloves
• 1 cinnamon or cassia stick
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 2 tsp minced garlic or garlic mashed to a paste
• 1 tbsp minced ginger or ginger mashed to a paste
• 1 ¼ cups packed grated onions
• 4 dried red chilies
• 1 ½ cups water
• 1 tsp salt, or more to taste
• 1 tsp sugar