Chilly Chicken In Chinese Style

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Chilly Chicken In Chinese Style

Simple dish made in mins....
Prep Time 1 day 21 hours
Total Time 1 day 21 hours
Cuisine Chinese
Servings 3 people

Ingredients
  

  • 750 g Chicken boneless, cubed into 1 inch pieces
  • 2 inch Fresh ginger chopped
  • 5-10 cloves Garlic chopped
  • 7-8 nos Green chilies chopped
  • 1-2 tsp Cumin seeds Jeerakam
  • Salt As reqd
  • 2 nos Eggs
  • 2 tbsp Corn flour
  • 1 tbsp Thin arrowroot powder
  • 2 tbsp Soya sauce
  • 2 tbsp Chilly sauce green or red as per choice
  • 1-2 tbsp White pepper powder
  • 1/2 cup Onion finely chopped
  • 1/2 of Capsicum thin slices
  • 1/2 tsp Ajinomoto
  • 1/2-1 cup Chicken stock or veg stock optional
  • Oil For frying
  • For chicken stock/veg stock:
  • Left over chicken bones
  • 1 no Onion roughly chopped
  • 1 no Carrot roughly chopped
  • 100 g Cabbage roughly chopped
  • 2-3 nos Cardamoms
  • 2-3 nos Cloves Grambu
  • 5-6 nos Pepper corns
  • For decoration: Thin juliennes of ginger and egg yolks.

Instructions
 

  • For preparing chilly chicken in Chinese style, first prepare chicken/veg stock in the following manner: in a pressure cooker add four to six cups of water depending on the amount of chicken bones.
  • Add chicken bones, onion, carrot or cabbage, pepper corns, cardamom and cloves.
  • Pressure cook it for 3-4 whistles and then cook for 5 minutes on medium flame.
  • Strain the water and keep it aside(this can be used to make soups. The left over can be re-used again to make stock)
  • For preparing chicken marinate: Prepare a thick paste from fresh ginger, garlic, chilies, cumin seeds & salt as per taste. Try not to add water.
  • Clean and cut the boneless chicken to 1 inch pieces.
  • Transfer the contents into a mixing bowl.
  • Stir in the thick paste, eggs (white only), soya sauce 1 tbsp, chilly sauce 1 tbsp, cornflour and thin arrowroot powder. Mix properly and keep it aside for 1/2 hour at the bottom tray of the refrigerator.
  • Heat oil in a pan, fry the chicken marinated chicken pieces for 10-15 minutes and drain away the excess oil from chicken.
  • In another pan heat oil, saute in the onion, green chillies 4 to 5(add more if you want spicy), ginger 1/2 inch and garlic 5 cloves. Stir it for a minute.
  • Saute in capsicum and salt on high flame for another minute.
  • Then add soya sauce(1 tbsp), chilly sauce(1 tbsp), ajinomoto and white pepper powder 1-2 tbsp as per spice reqd.
  • Add the fried chicken pieces and stir in 1/2 to 1 cup chicken stock.
  • SautT on high flame till the gravy thickens and coats on chicken pieces.
  • For Decoration: Whisk the remaining egg yolks with salt.
  • Make an omelet and cut into pieces.
  • Garnish with thin julianne¦s of ginger & omelet pieces.
  • Chilly chicken in chinese style is ready. Serve hot with steamed rice.
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