Crispy Chilli Chicken-- Chinese Delicacy

CRISPY CHILLI CHICKEN

Chilli Chicken Recipes are easily available across internet. The only thing which makes mine different is the crispiness of the chicken pieces and slightly different sauce from a normal recipe.

So.. quickly note down the  Ingredients and the recipe...

INGREDIENTS 

1. Boneless Chicken - 1/2 kg cut into pcs.
2. Cornflour - 2 tbsp
3. All Purpose Flour (maida) - for top coat - 1 bowl
4. Ginger Garlic paste - 1 1/2 tsp
5. Red Chilli Paste/ Sauce - 1/2 tsp
6. Honey - 1 tsp
7. Soya Sauce - 1 1/2 tsp
8. Ajinomoto - 1 1/2 tsp
9. Onion - 1 big chopped
10. Garlic cloves - 10 chopped
11. Ginger - 1 tsp chopped
12. Green Chillies - 3 chopped (As per taste)
13. Salt - to taste
14. Water - 3 tbsp
15. Oil - for cooking
16. Dry Parsley - for sprinkle

PREPARATION 

Marination -

In a bowl take cornflour, tsp ginger garlic paste, salt and and little water to make a smooth thick mixture.Now add the boneless chicken cuts in the mixture and let it marinate for atleast half an hour.

Post half an Hour --

In a deep pan heat sufficient oil for deep frying. Take these marinated pieces of chicken and wrap them in dry all purpose flour and immediately deep fry them on a medium low flame. This process makes your chicken really crispy. Now, in a Wok. heat little oil around 2 tbsp. add the chopped garlic and ginger together and saute for few seconds. Add chopped onion and green chillies together. Fry them on a high flame while continuously stirring. now add the red chilli paste or red chilli sauce, honey and soya sauce and saute for  few seconds and add 1/2 tea cup of water and let it thicken (as a sauce). Add the crispy chicken pieces into the sauce and mix well. Sprinkle Ajinomoto and mix well again.. Your crispy chilli chicken is ready to serve...

Serve it Hot as a Snack... Sprinkle some dry Parsley to get that instant flavor...

FOR VEGGIES-- you may replace the chicken with Paneer or Soya or Gobhi as well :)

Okay... So if you liked this recipe please do write to me.. :)

Happy Cooking :) :)

Kosha Murgi

KOSHA MURGI 

Chicken cooked in thick and spicy gravy.

INGREDIENTS -

1. Chicken - 1/2 kg
2. Tomatoes - 2 big
3. Onions - 3 Big
4. Garlic - 15-20 cloves
5. Ginger - 1 cube
6. Green Chillies - 3
7. Coriander Leaves chopped - 1/2 cup
8. Red Chilli Powder- 1 1/2 tsp
9. Cumin powder - 1 1/2 tsp
10. Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
11. Cinnamon - 1 stick broken into two
12. Big Cardamon - 1
13. Cloves - 4
14. Green Cardamon - 4
15. Black Peppercorns - 4-6
16. Bay Leaf - 1 big
17. Salt - to taste
18. Mustard Oil for cooking
19. Water accordingly

Serves - 4 to 5

PREPARATION -

Blend the onions , ginger and garlic to make a paste. Now in a deep pan heat Oil. Add Bay leaf, cinnamon, big cardamon, green cardamon, cloves, cumin seeds, and black peppercorns and fry them on a low heat for few seconds. Now add the onion paste and fry it till the oil separates from it.Add Red Chilli powder, cumin powder and salt and mix.Now add the cut tomatoes and green chillies and saute it for few seconds and then cover the pan with a lid till the tomatoes melt. Open the lid and again saute it on a high flame for 5 mins while adding little water to it and continuously stirring it.

Now add the Chicken to the masala stir it finely so that the masala is finely coated on the chicken. turn the flame on low mode and cover it with the lid. Let it cook till the chicken is  ready.

Open the lid,  and now saute on a medium high flame. Again add 1/2 cup of water and  saute till the gravy thickens. Add chopped coriander leaves and mix well.

Your "Kosha Murgi" is ready to serve. 

Have it with Rumali Roti and plz do not forget to pen down your views.. 

HAPPY COOKING :) :)