Chilli Chicken Recipe || চিলি চিকেন || चिली चिकन || Restaurant Style

Chilli Chicken Recipe || Salma Recipe

Time: Preparation 30 minutes, marination 30 minutes, cooking 15-20 minutes.

Note: I have not used Ajinomoto (MSG) in my recipe. I also request you all to avoid, it is very harmful for health.

Sesame oil is preferred for this recipe. In case you do not have sesame oil, you can use any vegetable oil.

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Ingredients:

• Marination
• Chicken (boneless) - 500 gm
• Ginger-Garlic paste - 1/2 tablespoon
• Soya sauce- 1/2 tablespoon
• Salt - 2 teaspoon
• Sugar - 1 teaspoon
• Corn flour- 75 gm
• Flour- 100 gm
• Baking powder- 1/2 teaspoon
• Sesame oil - 1 tablespoon
• Vinegar - 1/2 tablespoon
• Egg - 1 pc
• Black pepper powder - 1/2 teaspoon
• Water (lukewarm) - 150 ml
• Cooking
• Sesame Oil - 500 ml
• Capsicum (medium) - 1 pc
• Onion (medium) - 1 pc
• Black pepper powder - 1 teaspoon
• Green chili - 5 pc
• Sugar - 1 teaspoon
• Ginger - 5 gm
• Garlic - 10 gm
• Soya sauce- 1 tablespoon
• Vinegar - 1 tablespoon
• Sesame oil - 2 tablespoon
• Corn flour- 2 teaspoon
• Salt (as per taste)
• Red chili sauce - 1/2 tablespoon
• Tomato sauce - 4 tablespoon

Method

Preparation

- Clean and wipe dry the chicken
- Cut the chicken pieces about 1 inch in size
- Cut capsicum in square or triangle shape
- Dice the onion in 4 piece and cut them in petal shape
- Fine chop ginger and garlic
- Make separate ginger garlic paste

Marination

- Take the chicken pieces in a bowl
- Add 2 tsp salt (or as per your taste)
- Add 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
- Add 1 tsp sugar
- Add 1/2 tbsp of ginger-garlic paste
- Add 1/2 tsp of baking powder
- Add 1 tbsp of Sesame oil
[Mix everything very well]

- Add 1/2 tbsp of soya sauce
- Add 1/2 tbsp of vinegar
- Add 150 ml lukewarm water
[Mix everything very well and season the chicken for 15 minutes. The juice will enter the chicken very well in this seasoning. And the bater will also become good]

- After 15 minutes, add egg to the bater and mix very well
[The egg prevent the juice from leaving the chicken]

- Add the corn flour and mix it well
- Now, add the flour and again mix it thoroughly.
[This makes a very good coating over chicken. Keep the chicken on marination again for another 15 minutes]

Frying Chicken

We will fry the chicken in 2 steps, first we will cook about 70% on medium flame and in second step we will fry on high flame.
- Heat pan on medium flame
- Pour 500 ml sesame oil and heat it up.
[In case sesame is not present, use any vegetable oil]

- Add the marinated chicken to the heated oil
- Fry the chicken about 70%
- Strain out the chicken
- Increase the flame to high and let the oil heat up more.
- Add the fried chickens to the heated oil for 2nd stage of frying.
- Once the chicken almost golden brown in color, strain out the chicken.
[Use kitchen paper or dry tissue paper to absorb excess oil]

Tips:

1. Frying chicken on medium flame will uniformly fry the chicken from both inside and outside. But, if we fry the chicken on high flame, the outer layer of chicken gets frieds quickly and gets hard, yet the inner part will remain little raw. If we fry more to get the inner part fried properly, then the outer layer will get over fried and the chicken gets hard.

2. We are taking the chicken out of oil before increasing the flame because, we want the chicken get the high heat instantly in second stage. This will make the outer layer of chicken pieces crispy and crunchy within a short time, but the inner part will remain juicy. If we had kept the chicken in oil when increasing the heat, the chicken would have also got the heat for longer time and would have become hard inside by the time outer layer become crunchy.

Cooking

- Heat pan on medium-high flame
- Add 2 tbsp oil in the pan
- Add chopped ginger & garlic when the oil is hot
- Saute for 1/2 minute
- Add the onion and saute for another 1/2 minute
- Add the capsicum and saute for another 1 minute.
- Add the green chilis
[Do not make onions and capsicum too soft, it should be just soft]
- Turn the flame to low
- Add soya sauce, vinegar, red chilli sauce, tomato sauce, mix everything very well.
- Take about 300 ml water, mix 2 tsp corn flour. Make sure no lump is present
- Add this corn flour mixed water to the gravy.
[If you prefer more gravy, add more water and corn flour]
- Add the black pepper powder, sugar and little salt. Mix them well
[Soya sauce, red chilli sauce and tomato sauce all contains salt]
- Once the gravy start boiling and the rawness of corn flour disappears, add the fried chickens.
- Mix the chicken pieces well in gravy
- Continue cooking on low flame for 2 minutes

Our chilli chicken is ready to be served!

Chilli Chicken makes a splendid combination with all types of fried rice and jira rice.

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