Chilly Chicken

This is from my Amma’s cookbooks, she prepares this so nicely and I enjoy it having when served with parota. It comprises lot of capsicum pieces and lifts up the taste and turns to a spicy dish. The name itself tempts all non vegetarians, Chicken recipes are all time favourite for all rite from kids to grannies. This is a only non veg recipe which has a combination of both crispy and semi gravy as well.

Ingredients:

• Chicken cut into small pieces- half Kg/1 Lbs
• Capsicum/Bell Peppers- 1 Large
• Green chillies(cut into lengthy shape) - 2
• Large Onion cutted into square shape- 1
• Soya Sauce- 1 Tspn
• Chilli Sauce- 1 Tspn
• Vinegar – half Tspn
• Tomato Sauce- 1 Tspn
• Pepper Coarse – 1 Tspn
• Lemon Extract- 1 Tspn(Optional)
• Oil- To fry

To Fry:

• White Chola Powder- half Tspn
• Maida/All purpose flour-1 Tspn
• Chilli Powder- 1 Tspn
• Red food color- a pinch (Optional)
• Salt- To taste

Method:

Marinate chicken along with the items under To Fry list atleast for half an hour.

After marinating, fry it till turns crispy to hot oil, transfer it to a paper towel and set dry and keep aside.

In a pan, pour oil, after it turns hot,add onion, add green chillies and bell pepper and stir it for 3 minutes, add pepper coarse  and stir again.

Now, add the fried chicken pieces into this and add Soya Sauce, Chilli Sauce , Vinegar,
Tomato Sauce and stir well again until all the sauces gets well into the chicken.

Add lemon extract to this and serve hot.

Tips:

"Adding lemon extract us optional.

Adding red color is also optional but it gives nice color to the texture.

You can also add chola powder mixed with a little water while adding the sauces to the chicken if you need a little gravy ( but chilli chicken recipe doesn’t need any gravy)"