Chilli Chicken

This is an indo-chinese dish.A wonderful dish paired often with fried Rice.Also one of the lip smacking item.Indian style Chinese cooking takes popular Chinese dishes and adds simple Indian ingredients to it. The result? Magic!! Try it...

Ingredients-1
8 nos Chicken tenders
4 tbsp Maida / all purpose flour
2 tbsp Corn starch / corn flour
1½ tsp Salt (for mixing)
¾ tsp Ginger garlic paste
1 pinch Ajinomoto(for mixing)
1 tsp Dark soy sauce
2 tsp Vinegar
1 tsp Green chillies (finely minced)
3 cup Oil (for deep frying)

Ingredients-2
3 nos Onion
2 no Green capsicum / bell pepper
4 no Green chillies slit
1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp Dark soy sauce
2 tbsp Tomato ketchup
2 tsp Red chili sauce
½ tsp Sugar
1 tsp Salt (or as per taste)
1 pinch Ajinomotto(for sauteing)
2 tbsp Oil
1 tsp Cornstarch
¼ cup Water
1 stks Green onions for garnishing


Instructions:

Wash the chicken tenders and cut lengthwise into small pieces. Add maida, cornstarch, salt, soy sauce, ginger garlic paste, vinegar and minced green chilies to the washed chicken pieces and mix well. Make a tight batter, water from the chicken should be enough for mixing, add water only if its necessary.
Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry those chicken pieces in small batches.Drain excess oil using a paper towel and keep the fried pieces aside.
Meanwhile slit open those long green chillies, roughly chop the onion and green peppers and make a paste of ginger garlic.

Heat a wok add slit green chillies, onion, bell peppers and ginger garlic paste.
Saute them for few minutes over high flame. Add soy sauce,tomato ketchup,sugar,salt ,ajinomoto and mix.Add fried chicken pieces to this thick gravy.
Saute over medium high flame until its well coated and the gravy thickens.Garnish with slit green chillies and green onions.

This is dry version of Chilli chicken,serve it as an appetizer.

If you wish to have it in the form of thick gravy, then Mix the cornstarch with water, combine well to make a thin solution. Add this to the prepared chilli chicken and simmer it for few minutes. Do not boil.just mix well over medium high flame for few minutes.