Chilli Chicken

Chilli chicken is a popular Indo-Chinese dish of chicken. In India, this may include a variety of dry chicken preparations. Though mainly boneless chicken is used in this dish, some people also recommend to use boned chicken too.

Chilli Chicken.

we will be doing this in 2 phases. We create 2 parts of the dish and mix them together.

1. Create Chicken Marination.
2. Create Veggy Mixture.

Phase 1 - Ingredients to Create Chicken Marination.

• Chicken - 1 Kilo (boneless small pieces preferably)
• Cornflour - 2 tsp
• Egg - 2
• Black pepper pwdr - half tsp
• Ajinomoto - 1 tsp
• Red chili sauce - 2 tbsp
• Red food color - quarter tsp
• Salt

Marinate chicken with all the above ingredients. In a wok, heat oil and fry the marinated chicken until golden brown on medium flame.

Phase 2 - Ingredients to Create Veg Mixture.

• Capsicum
• Spring Onions
• Cabbage
• Whole black pepper
• Soya sauce - 2 tsp
• Vinegar - 2 tsps
• Dry red chili whole
• Cumin seeds
• Chopped green chilies
• Chopped ginger and garlic
• Curry leaves

Mixing Phase 1/2 all Together.

• In a wok add
  • oil,
  • whole black pepper,
  • curry leaves,
  • dry red chili,
  • finely chopped green chilies,
  • cumin seeds,
  • capsicum,
  • cabbage,
  • spring onions,
  • chopped ginger and
  • garlic
• fry for 2 mins.
• now add
  • soya sauce,
  • vinegar,
  • ajinomoto,
  • salt,
  • half cup of water
• cook this for 2 mins and now add the fried chicken (from phase 1) and allow it to cook on low flame until the water dries up.
• In the meanwhile
  • mix 3 tsp of cornflour with half cup of water and add it in the above chicken.
  • mix well cover it up and cook on low flame for 5 mins.

MOM’s style chilli chicken is ready to relish… :) Enjoy!!!.