Chicken thighs in chilli polenta panade with salad

AUTHOR
Diane Archer
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
45 mins
TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 4 Chicken drumsticks (approx. 150 g each)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 60 g Polenta (corn semolina)
  • 1 TEASPOON Cumin
  • 1 TEASPOON Sweet peppers
  • 1 TEASPOON Chilli powder
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Flour
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 1/2 l oil for frying
  • 1 Head romaine lettuce
  • 2-3 red chillies
  • 7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Oil
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 1 red onion
  • 150 g cherry tomatoes
  • 1 can(s) (212 ml) Vegetable corn
  • 200 g Whole milk yoghurt

Directions

  1. 1

    Skin chicken legs, rinse and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper. Put polenta in a bowl and mix with salt, cumin, paprika and chilli powder. Put flour in a second bowl.

  2. 2

    Whisk the egg in another bowl. Put oil for frying in a pot and heat it up. Turn chicken legs first in flour, then in egg and finally in polenta. Fry chicken legs in the oil for about 5 minutes, remove from the pot and drain on kitchen paper.

  3. 3

    Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for approx. 25 minutes. Clean, wash and pat dry the salad. Cut large lettuce leaves into strips.1 Halve the chilli, remove seeds and chop finely.

  4. 4

    Cut 2 chillies into fine rings. Whisk orange and lemon juice with oil, chopped chilli, sugar, salt and pepper to a salad dressing. Peel onion and cut into rings. Wash the cherry tomatoes, dab dry and cut in half.

  5. 5

    Drain the corn on a sieve. Mix yoghurt with salt, pepper and chilli powder. Mix salad with the salad dressing, arrange on plates and sprinkle with cherry tomatoes, corn and onion rings.

  6. 6

    Remove the chicken legs from the oven and arrange on the salad. Add yoghurt in a bowl. Sprinkle with chilli rings.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
560 kcal
CARBS
27 g
FATS
33 g
PROTEINS
36 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesMeatPoultry