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!

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Indian Chili Chicken

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

 

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

Course: Appetizer, Main Course

Cuisine: Indian, indo-chinese

Keyword: chilly chicken, Indian Chili chicken, ino-chinese chilly chicken

Ingredients

Chicken

• 1 pound organic boneless chicken   cut into small bite sized
• 4 tbsp oil

For batter

• 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
• 2 tbsp Corn flour
• 1/2 tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp Black pepper powder
• 1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
• 1/2 tsp Ching's Chili chicken powder optional
• 1 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tbsp water or just enough to make a batter that coats

For sauce

• 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
• 1/2 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

For garnish

• 1 tsp white sesame seeds
• 2 tsp ginger julienne cut
• 1/2 cup green ends of spring onions

Instructions

1. Cut the chicken into bite sized pieces

2. Make a batter of the ingredients in the batter section

3. Mix the chicken well into the batter and marinate in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours

4. Next, heat a pan with oil and either deep fry or shallow fry in batches and make sure it is cooked well.

5. Drain on to a paper towel

6. .For the sauce, heat oil in a shallow pan and add the white part of the spring onions

7. Next add the garlic,ginger, green chilies, bell peppers and onions

8. Add the sauces soy sauce, chili garlic sauce and sautee well

9. Add a little water and boil and let it simmer

10. Add the corn flour water mix and wait till it thickens

11. Add the Ching's chili chicken powder if using (optional)

12. Once the gravy is thick , mix the fried chicken and makesure it is coated well

13. Garnish with ginger, green onions and white sesame seeds

14. Serve with rice or noodles, enjoy!