Home-style Chilli Chicken
Boneless chicken thigh, fried and tossed with onion, chillies, tomatoes and sauces—quick, easy, no-fuss
- Cooking time45 mins
Calories364kcal
In this episode of Pasher Barir Ranna, Doma Wang, chef and founder of The Blue Poppy, the Tibetan restaurant that was originally housed in Sikkim House on Middleton Row in Kolkata, cooks her version of a dry chilli chicken.
Doma di's chilli chicken reflects Doma di's philosophy of cooking, comfort over fastidiousness. If you are comfortable with a knife this chilli chicken can be cooked in half an hour. It is really quick and easy. Plus, this chilli chicken uses only a handful of ingredients most of which you most likely have at home. The only downside to this recipe is that once it is on the plate, it will be over in five minutes.
Doma di recommends keeping this dry and resisting the temptation to make a "jhol" out of this. Can be served with drinks, or with plain fragrant rice and a soup, or even with a fluffy steamed tingmo.
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Ingredients
For marination
- 500 g boneless chicken thigh (5-cm cubes)
- 5 g salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 5 g dark soy
- 25 g corn starch
- 25 g plain flour
- 1 egg
- oil for frying
For cooking
- 20 g vegetable oil
- 150 g onions (quartered and petals separated)
- 20 g green chillies (split longitudinally)
- 200 g tomatos (3-cm chunks)
- 3 g salt
- 3 g dark soy
- 30 g ketchup
Method
- Cut the boneless chicken thigh in 5-cm cubes.
- Marinate it with salt, pepper, dark soy, corn starch, plain flour and an egg. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, prep the veg: quarter the onions and separate the petals, split green chillies and chop tomatoes.
- Heat oil for deep-frying. Fry the chicken in batches on medium heat (~150°C) until crisp, golden, and fully cooked through. Set aside.
- For the sauce, take 20 g vegetable oil in a wok set over high heat.
- Add onions, fry 30 secs, then add the green chillies. Fry another 30 secs.
- Add the fried chicken, and toss to coat.
- Add salt, dark soy and ketchup, and stir-fry everything for a minute.
- Finally, add the tomatoes and cook for anohter minute before turning off the heat.
