Rogan Josh Roasted Wings with Homemade Chips

Chicken wings roasted in rogan josh sauce and served with homemade chips

Chicken rogan josh is a popular Indian dish but it's probably fair to say that the dish is not often prepared using chicken wings. Chicken breast is probably the most favoured option. In this instance, however, I used a supermarket jar of rogan josh sauce to flavour chicken wings before they were roasted with what I think were delicious results. I hope you'll give it a try.

By the way, I've included a short video at the very end of this post showing a slightly different way in which I have served rogan josh chicken wings - in the form of a naan bread sandwich. I hope you'll watch it and that this is also an idea which you will find appealing.

Ingredients (Serves One)

1 large baking potato
Salt
2 tablespoons rogan josh cooking sauce
4 whole chicken wings
Vegetable oil for greasing baking tray

Parboiled chipped potatoes ready for chilling

Directions

The chips/fries which are served with this dish can be prepared in any way you choose - you could, of course, even simply use frozen ones ready for frying if you prefer. I like to prepare them from scratch however and do so in the now well established three step fashion.

The baked potato is firstly peeled and sliced/chopped in to chips. The chips are then steeped in cold water for ten minutes to get rid of the excess starch before being put in a pot of cold, slightly salted water, which is brought to a simmer for five minutes or so. The chips are drained at this stage, allowed to steam off and added to a plastic dish and the fridge for a minimum half hour. This dries them off as well as chills them.

Rogan josh cooking sauce

It's not essential to marinate the chicken wings in the sauce before cooking but it really does help intensify the flavours. When you have your parboiled chips in the fridge, add the rogan josh sauce to a large bowl. Make sure it is a glass or stone bowl, as the sauce will permanently stain plastic.

Chicken wings are added to rogan josh sauce

Add the wings to the bowl and carefully fold them through the sauce to evenly coat. Cover with clingfilm and leave for an hour or so to marinate. Don't, however, put them in the fridge. Like any type of meat, chicken wings should be cooked from room temperature and never from chilled.

Chips are drained after first deep frying

Take the chilled, parboiled chips from the fridge and deep fry them at a medium to high temperature for four or five minutes.They should after this frying only just have started to colour and crisp. Drain them on kitchen paper and return them to the fridge as before for at least a further half hour.

Chicken wings marinated in rogan josh sauce

Preheat your oven to 400F/200C/Gas Mark 6 before laying the marinated wings skin sides up on a roasting tray and baking for half an hour. Sit aside to rest while you finish cooking the chips.

Chips are drained on kitchen paper

Fry the chips again at a fairly high temperature this time until crisp and golden. Drain again on kitchen paper before plating up your meal to serve.