Chilli Chicken

Chilli Chicken is a popular Indo-Chinese recipe that has many ways of cooking it, varies a bit from one another. I’m sharing my version here, the way we cook it at home from many years. Among the Chinese Chicken dishes, this one is our most favourite. Hope you all will like making it for your family and friends. 🙂

Chilli Chicken
Chilli Chicken

Chilli Chicken

Ingredients

To marinate

  • Boneless chicken- 500 g (diced)
  • Egg- 1 large (whisked)
  • Cornflour- ¼ cup
  • Green chilli sauce- 1 tsp (adjust as per your tolerance)
  • Black pepper powder- ¾ tsp
  • Ginger paste- 1 tsp
  • Garlic paste- 1 tsp
  • Salt- 1 tsp
  • Vinegar- ½ tsp

For sauce

  • Tomato puree- 6 tbsp
  • Tomato sauce- ¼ cup
  • Dark Soy sauce- ½ tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Green onion- 1 chopped (only the green part)
  • Green chillies- 4 chopped (adjust as per your tolerance)
  • Onion- 4 medium-sized
  • Green Bell paper- 1 medium-sized, I used ½ of this (cut into cubes)
  • Garlic- 1 tbsp (chopped)
  • Vegetable oil

Method

Cut 2 onions into thin slices. Cut another 2 onions into cubes. Keep aside.

Add everything in a bowl mentioned under to marinate with the freshly washed pieces of chicken. Mix well; keep aside for 1-2 hours. Heat 1 cup of oil in a deep non-stick frying pan. On medium flame fry the chicken pieces until golden, drain on paper towel.

Heat ¼ of oil in a frying pan. Add sliced onions, fry quickly on high flame until light brown in color. Lower the flame; add chopped garlic and fry for few seconds. Next to add chillies, tomato puree, dark soya sauce, tomato sauce, and salt, mix well. Add ½ cup water into this, mix, and give this a quick boil on high flame. Keep stirring, lower the flame; add fried chicken pieces, cubed onions, and bell peppers. Cook for 10 minutes, keep stirring in between. Remove from the heat.

Your Chilli Chicken is done. Garnish with some chopped green onions.

Serve hot with Chinese fried rice or Noodles.

Note:

If you want to have Dry Chilli Chicken add 1/4 cup of water at the time of cooking, it will make the chicken dryish like in the picture below.

Dry Chilli Chicken
Dry Chilli Chicken
Chilli Chicken
Chilli Chicken
Chilli Chicken
Chilli Chicken
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3 Comments

  1. Hi.. did you not put salt in the gravy ? I followed the recipe to the T but it was sweet to taste. Any idea where did I go wrong?

     

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