Chilli Chicken Recipe

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Chilli Chicken Recipe

Description

Cooking Time

Preparation Time :2 Hr 0 Min

Cook Time : 45 Min

Total Time : 2 Hr 45 Min

Ingredients

Serves : 4
  • 500 gms boneless chicken cut into bite size cubes


  • 2-3 cups oil for deep frying


  • 1 tbsp vinegar


  • 1 tsp ginger and garlic paste


  • 1 nos egg


  • 2 tbsp cornflour


  • 1 tbsp refined flour/maida


  • 1/2 tsp coarsely ground black pepper powder for batter


  • 1/2 tsp refined oil for batter


  • 4 tbsp water


  • 1 tsp salt


  • 1 nos green pepper ,diced


  • 4 nos spring onion finely chopped and separate the chopped green part for garnishing


  • 1 nos big onion ,diced


  • 8-10 nos garlic cloves finely chopped


  • 1 inch ginger finely chopped


  • 1 nos green chili,slit


  • 1 tbsp cornflour mixed with 2 tbsp water


  • 2 tbsp refined oil


  • 1 tbsp soy sauce


  • 1 tbsp chili garlic sauce


  • 1/4 tsp coarsely ground black pepper powder


  • 1/2 tsp sugar


  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions

  • Take the chicken pieces in a bowl. Add vinegar, salt, water, ginger-garlic paste, oil and coarse black pepper powder. Now mix well and set aside for at least 2 hours.
  • Now add the cornflour and refined flour/maida. Mix well
  • Heat oil in a pan for deep frying. Wait for the oil to completely hot. Now add chicken pieces one by one. Fry these in medium flame. Do not over fry the chicken or it will turn hard.
  • Take a small bowl add soya sauce, chili garlic sauce, and sugar. Mix well.
  • Heat oil in another pan. Add chopped garlic and chopped ginger. Fry for some seconds.
  • Then add chopped spring onion, diced onion, slit green chili, and diced green bell pepper.
  • Add salt. Remember not to add too much of salt as the sauces have salt in them.
  • Fry for 2 minutes on high flame.Lower the flame and add the cornflour and water mixture. Stir for some seconds.
  • Now add sauces mixture. Mix well and turn off the flame and wait for a minute. This step is needed just to maintain the crispiness of the chicken.
  • Now add chicken pieces and coarse black pepper powder and mix well. Sprinkle some chopped green spring onion ends. Then serve hot.