CHILLI CHICKEN

Chilli chicken is an Indo-Chinese dish where the combination of Indian spices and Chinese style cooking creates magic. This is a very popular Non vegetarian side dish, usually served with fried rice, rotis etc. This delicacy is simple to prepare and almost all the ingredients are readily available. 

Now a look at the detailed recipe. 

Ingredients: 

• Chicken (Boneless) 500 grams 
• Onion 2 medium no.s 
• Capsicum (bell pepper) 1 no. 
• Ginger & garlic 2 tsp chopped 
• Cornflour 4 tbsp
• Egg 1 no. 
• Pepper powder 1/2 tsp
• Sauces - tomato 1 tbsp, soya sauce 3/4 tbsp, Chilli sauce 1 tbsp 
• Green chillies 2-3 no.s 
• Spring onion 1 tsp for garnishing 
• Oil & salt 

Method of preparation: 

1. Clean and cut the chicken into bite sized pieces. 
2. Beat the egg, add the cornflour, pepper powder and salt, and make this into a paste. Marinate the chicken pieces in this for around 15-20 minutes. Mix 1/2 tbsp of corn flour to half cup of water and prepare a thick solution. 
3. Finely chop the ginger and garlic. Chop the onion and capsicum into 1" pieces. 
4. Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the marinated chicken pieces till golden brown. Set it aside. 
5. In the hot oil, add the chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies and sauté well. Now add the onion and capsicum pieces, sprinkle salt and cook in high flame for a couple of minutes. 
6. To this add the sauces and a cup of water, mix well. Now add the fried chicken pieces with a pinch of pepper powder and bring to boil. To this add the cornflour mixed in water, this is for the gravy to obtain a thick consistency. 
7. When the ingredients are cooked and the gravy thickens, remove from the flame. Garnish with spring onion. 

Yummy chilli chicken is ready to be served.