Black Pepper Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 8 chicken drumsticks, skinned
• 4 teaspoons freshly cracked black peppercorns
• 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 1 lemon, juice of
• 1 onion, halved and thinly sliced
• 2 onions, chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, chopped
• 30 mm piece ginger, chopped
• oil, for frying
• 200 ml water
• 1 pinch salt

Recipe

• 1 put the chicken drumsticks in a dish. combine 1 tsp of the black pepper, the turmeric, lemon juice and a pinch of salt, and rub over the chicken.
• 2 cover and leave to marinate in the fridge overnight.
• 3 blend the chopped onions with the garlic and ginger and a little water to make a paste.
• 4 in a cast iron frying pan, dry roast the remaining pepper until it begins to smoke. do not let it burn.
• 5 heat about 2 tbslp of oil in a wok or frying pan and fry the sliced onions until they turn golden. add the onion/garlic/ginger paste and continue frying until all the liquid has evaporated and the onion is turning brown.
• 6 add about ¾ of the roasted pepper, the chicken including all the marinade juices, 200ml water and ½ tsp salt.
• 7 bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through adding a little more water if the sauce gets too thick.
• 8 serve the curry hot sprinkled with the remainder of the roasted black pepper and garnish.