Tawa Chicken Leg Recipe
Tawa Chicken Leg Recipe | How to Make Tawa Chicken Leg
Tawa Chicken Leg Recipe – Step by step image instruction to make Tawa Chicken Leg at home. This is the must try and very popular non-veg dish in India. It is the preparation of fried chicken on an iron pan with least ingredients. Traditional thawa chicken recipe is a preparation of boneless chicken with the mingles of spices, but today we are going to make “Tawa Chicken Leg” means we are going to use chicken legs in this recipe. This type of chicken preparation you will find on top of the list on every occasion. Tawa chicken leg is quick preparation and it will be good fit with lacha paratha or nan. You will need few ingredients to make this chicken leg at home. It is very tasty preparation of chicken drumsticks, which are cooked with the tomato, green chilies and some spices.

I have very interesting story behind this preparation, I decided to make tawa chicken leg on last Saturday, Why Tawa chicken leg? Read the story! Actually it was chilled out Saturday, as my husband was at home and it was a weekend. While talking about our garden area, he started to share one experience of his childhood. Actually he love to eat chicken. So one day, when he was in 5th class, his mom decided to make a chicken kosha and that was very cold winter day. Chicken kosha means dry chicken, tawa chicken is also one type of dry chicken. You will not find gravy in this preparation or say this is a preparation of minimal gravy.
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Ok! Let’s come back to our story. As I told you, my husband was sharing one golden memory(Incident) of his childhood, when he was a school going kid, his mom used to cook chicken kosha on a “Chulha“(oven made by soil). The thing is you will always find very heavy winter in north India, so in that heavy winter she specially used to make the chicken leg(chicken kosha using chicken legs).
He told me, that was the beautiful experience for him, to have a garam garam (hot) chicken legs which are prepared with the mingles of spices in that cold winter. He is still remember that and want to live that moments again. So after heard this story, I have decided to Make “Tawa Chicken Leg”. This was my tasty, cool and delicious Saturday preparation. I don’t have “chulha – one type of Earthen chulha” at my home but no worry I can cook this chicken leg on gas.
This is very easy and ready to make recipe. Tawa chicken leg recipe is best fit for every chicken lover, doesn’t matter if they are kinds, teenagers, adults or senior person. I love to eat this preparation with lacha paratha. The taste of lacha paratha with tawa chicken leg is the best combination I ever had! So excited for the recipe? Then Read on!
- Serve For : 2 People
- Preparation Time : 15-20 Minutes( Marination Time is included)
- Cooking Time : 15 Minutes
- Total Time : 30-35 Minutes
Ingredients For Tawa Chicken Leg

- 2 Chicken leg
- 1 Chopped tomato
- 2 tsp Ginger-garlic paste
- 1 lemon
- 2-3 Green chilies
- 2 cube of butter
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1/2 tsp Chicken Masala
- 1 Tbsp Chopped coriander leaves
- 1/2 tsp Garam Masala
- 1 Black cardemom
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp Red chili powder
- Salt
How to Make Tawa Chicken Leg
Before start our preparation, make sure that all ingredients are in your hand. And start chicken legs marination process.

Step 1: We have to marinate chicken legs first. For chicken marination process, take one mixing bowl and clean the chicken legs, pore lemon juice, sprinkle salt and ginger garlic paste on it. Cover and marinate this for 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile cut the tomato, coriander leaves and green chilies.

Step 2: After 20 minutes, chicken legs are marinated now. Take a pan and heat the oil. Add cardamom in hot oil, let the cardamom splutter the aroma. Now add chicken legs in this oil, let the chicken legs fry in this hot oil. Cover it for while.

Step 3: Now add chopped green chili on this fried chicken legs and fry green chilies well. After green chilies are fried add chopped tomato, fry it well again. Then add red chili powder, coriander powder, chicken masala, garam masala and salt in this fried mixture. let the chicken leg cook well. Now chicken is perfectly cooked, pore half of the lemon and add 2 butter cubes on this chicken legs. Let it soaked the buttery smoothness.

Food is ready. Garnish coriander leaves on it and serve this preparation with lacha paratha, also serve the chopped onion, lettuce and lemon. While eating this chicken legs don’t forget to pore lemon juice, it will give a very authentic taste to this recipe. Soon I am sharing Lacha paratha recipe with you.
Additional Information
- You can use boneless chicken instead of chicken leg.
- If you want then add turmeric powder while cooking.
- want to eat spicy chicken leg? Then add more chilies as per your requirement.
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This looks so delicious! Thanks for posting such detailed images with your recipe.
Thank you so much for the awesome review, Dear! Your review give honor to my hard work. I hope you will come back and see more post soon.😊😇
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