Spicy honey chicken

This is the first time I cooked a Malay dish. According to the site I got this recipe from, My Kitchen Snippets, this dish is common at Malay food eateries.

Ingredients A:

6 drumsticks – clean and removed the fats and skin
1 tsp of turmeric powder
Salt and pepper to taste

Ingredients B:
2 tbsp of ground chili paste
3 tbsp of tomato paste
1 big onion – cut into rings
3 cloves of garlic – chopped
1 tbsp of chopped ginger
Some curry leaves (optional)
1 star anise
1 cinnamon bark
2 cloves
½ - ¾ cup of water
Honey to taste
Salt to taste

Method:
1) Put all the ingredients A together and marinate for half an hour. Line the chicken on a baking pan and bake in a pre-heated 400 degree F oven for 20 minutes.

2) While the chicken is baking, heat up a wok. Add about 2 tbsp of oil and stir fry cinnamon, cloves star anise and curry leaves until fragrant. Add in ground ginger and garlic and continue to stir-fry until lightly brown.

3) Add in tomato paste, chili paste, honey and stir well for 10 seconds. Add in the water. Bring it up to boil and toss in the chicken and onion rings.

4) Give a quick stir-fry, bring the heat to slow simmer, covered and cook until the sauce thickens and the chicken is done. Check seasonings to make sure that it is the sweetness and saltiness you like.

5) Dish out and serve with warm rice.

Note: You can either deep fried, pan fried or baked the drumsticks before cooking it in the sauce. I chose to bake it because I don't need to do a lot of cleaning later  =p.

Result: Quite delicious because it has a savoury, sweetness and spiciness taste. Another dish under the belt now. Definitely a dish to cook for the guests.