Hello all! Today's recipe is the very popular appetizer Indian Chili Chicken. This is a very delicious and famous dish usually served as an appetizer in Indo-Chinese restaurants back home. I was never a big fan of chicken growing up, but this particular dish has a very strong, unique flavor and subdues the "non-vegetarian" taste. No wonder I took an instant liking to it!
Some prefer the dry version of this dish and others like a little more sauce and this can be easily adjusted according to one's liking while preparing the sauce. This was also one of the dishes I missed when I moved away from home and nothing matched the taste of the Desi style Indo-Chinese Chili chicken that we get back home. From a couple of recipes, online and input from friends added a couple of tweaks to my liking. It is very simple to make and tastes simply awesome.
Ingredients of the Indian Chili chicken
It is basically battered fried chicken in a reduced gravy made with soy sauce, chili garlic sauce, green chilies, bell pepper, ginger, garlic, scallions (green onions), and other sauces. The chilies and bell pepper along with the chicken are the main ingredients and so it obviously got its name "Chili Chicken" from that.
Please read on for the full recipe and I would highly recommend you try this and would love to hear how you like it. Vegetarians could substitute chicken with paneer (cottage cheese), tofu or cauliflower and enjoy it as well!
Indian Chili Chicken
A spicy and delicious appetizer based on Indo-Chinese cuisine made with battered fried chicken and coated with reduced gravy made with soy, ginger garlic, and chili.
Ingredients
- 1 pound organic boneless chicken cut into small bite-sized pieces
- oil 4 tbsp
For batter:
- 1 tbsp All-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp Cornflour
- ½ tsp Kashmiri Red Chili powder
- ½ tsp Black pepper powder
- 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
- ½ tsp Ching's chili chicken powder (optional)
- 1 tbsp Vinegar
- 3 tbsp water
- salt to taste
For Sauce:
- 4 spring onions or scallions (Set aside the ends for garnish)
- 3 - 4 green chilies (adjust as needed)
- 10 garlic finely chopped
- 1-inch ginger finely chopped
- 1 green bell pepper diced into cubes
- ½ red onion diced into cubes
- 3 tbsp soy sauce (Ching's dark )
- 1 tbsp Chilli garlic sauce
- 1 tsp cornflour mixed with 2 tsp water
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp Ching's Chili chicken powder (optional)
For garnish
- 1 tsp white sesame seeds
- 2 tsp Julienne cut ginger
- green ends of spring onions
Directions
- Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces
- Make a batter of the ingredients in the batter section
- Mix the chicken well into the batter and marinate in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours
- Next, heat a pan with oil and either deep fry or shallow fry in batches and make sure it is cooked well.
- Drain on to a paper towel.
- For the sauce, heat oil in a shallow pan and add the white part of the spring onions
- Next add the garlic, ginger, green chilies, bell peppers, and onions
- Add a little water and boil and let it simmer
- Add the cornflour water mix and wait till it thickens
- Add the Ching's chili chicken powder if using (optional)
- Once the gravy is thick mix the fried chicken and make sure it is coated well
- Garnish with ginger, green onions, and white sesame seeds
- Serve with rice or noodles, enjoy!
Indian Chili Chicken is A spicy and delicious appetizer based on Indo-Chinese cuisine made with battered fried chicken and coated with reduced gravy made with soy, ginger garlic and chilli
- 1 pound organic boneless chicken cut into small bite sized
- 4 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp Corn flour
- ½ tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli powder
- ½ tsp Black pepper powder
- 1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
- ½ tsp Ching's Chili chicken powder optional
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 1 tbsp water or just enough to make a batter that coats
- 4 spring onions or scallions (Set aside the ends for garnish)
- 3-4 green chillies adjust as needed
- 10 garlic finely chopped
- 1 inch ginger finely chopped
- 1 green bell pepper diced into cubes
- ½ red onion diced into cubes
- 1 tbsp Chilli garlic sauce
- 3 tbsp Soy sauce Ching's dark
- 1 tbsp Cornflour mixed with water about 2 tbsp
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp salt or to taste
- 1 tsp Ching's Chili chicken powder optional
- 1 tsp white sesame seeds
- 2 tsp ginger julienne cut
- ½ cup green ends of spring onions
Cut the chicken into bite sized pieces
Make a batter of the ingredients in the batter section
Mix the chicken well into the batter and marinate in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours
Next, heat a pan with oil and either deep fry or shallow fry in batches and make sure it is cooked well.
Drain on to a paper towel
.For the sauce, heat oil in a shallow pan and add the white part of the spring onions
Next add the garlic,ginger, green chilies, bell peppers and onions
Add the sauces soy sauce, chili garlic sauce and sautee well
Add a little water and boil and let it simmer
Add the corn flour water mix and wait till it thickens
Add the Ching's chili chicken powder if using (optional)
Once the gravy is thick , mix the fried chicken and makesure it is coated well
Garnish with ginger, green onions and white sesame seeds
Serve with rice or noodles, enjoy!
Hmmm yummy. Tempting
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Perfect treats for the weekend... ENJOYYY ✌✌
Yes dear, they were gone in no time!Thank you so much!
This looks fabulous!
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My weakness and a torture right now as I am dieting!! This is one thing which i just cant resist!! looks yummmmm! <3
Thank you so much Mallika for the comments! oh my! dieting is not easy at all and requires so much will power , I have never managed to try dieting 🙂 I know what you mean just can't resist this particular dish and very tempting indeed!
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I love Indian dishes. I heard a lot about this dish and it looks also so yummy and tasty. but I never have it. i wanna try it. thanks for sharing this recipe.
So glad to hear you love it and hope you will try it out sometime. Thank you so much for stopping by and the lovely comment!
This looks really, really delicious!!!!