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Chowmein and hostel style chilli chicken
Ingredients
- 1/2 kg chicken
- to taste Salt
- 1 tsp freshly crushed black pepper powder
- as required Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp heaped ginger garlic paste
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 30 ml+ 20 ml oil
- 1 large onion (cut into petals)
- 1 large onion (chopped small)
- 2 medium size green capsicum (chopped into squares)
- 2 fresh green chillies (slit)
- 8-9 garlic cloves (chopped small)
- 2 tbsp tomato sauce
- 1 tbsp green chilli sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soya sauce
- 1/2 tsp vinegar
- 1 tsp chicken masala
- as required Sprinkle freshly crushed black pepper powder
- As Required If you have spring onion, finely chop and add for garnish.
Steps
- In a mixing bowl, take pieces of chicken. Add salt, black pepper, ginger garlic paste and lemon juice. Mix all well and keep for marination for an hour in fridge. After an hour, break an egg and add cornflour into the marinated chicken. Mix well. Next heat oil in a kadhai. Fry chicken without cover till chicken are nicely fried and then cover and cook for some more time.
- While frying chicken add some chicken masala. As chicken colour changes and it gets nicely fried. Take it out and keep aside. Next heat the kadhai with oil. Fry small chopped onion till brownish.
- Next put onion petals and capsicum squares. Add salt and pepper. Fry till onion is translucent and capsicum is cooked yet crunchy.
- Add chopped garlic and saute all together. Next add the sauces and vinegar. slit fresh green chillies and add.. Keep the flame medium to high. Now add the fried chicken and give a nice mix so that the chicken gets nicely coated with the sauces. Go for continuous flip mix. It's ready… sprinkle some black pepper powder. Mix.
- Serve hot…
- I love it served with chowmein… What combination do you all like??