Chinese
Chilli Chicken (Indo-Chinese Style)
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Chilli Chicken (Indo-Chinese Style) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the chicken into bite size pieces and mix it with the egg, 3 tbsp of the corn flour, the maida, ginger garlic paste, kashmiri chili powder, pepper, salt and 1 tsp of the soy sauce until every piece is coated. Rest it 15 minutes.
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Deep fry the chicken in hot oil in batches for 5 to 6 minutes until crisp, golden and cooked through, then drain it on paper.
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Heat the 1 tbsp oil in a wok on the highest heat, add the chopped garlic, ginger and slit green chilies for 30 seconds, then the onion and capsicum cut into squares and the spring onion whites, and toss 2 minutes so they stay crunchy.
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Add the rest of the soy sauce, the red chili sauce, ketchup, vinegar and sugar, then the water with the last 1/2 tbsp of corn flour stirred into it, and cook 1 minute until the sauce turns glossy.
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Add the fried chicken and toss on high heat for a minute until coated, then scatter the spring onion greens over. Eat it with fried rice or hakka noodles, or leave out the water for the dry version that is eaten as a starter.
Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chilli Chicken (Indo-Chinese Style), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chilli Chicken (Indo-Chinese Style) carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 340 kcal
- Protein
- 26 g
- Carbs
- 18 g
- Fat
- 18 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 930 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chilli Chicken (Indo-Chinese Style) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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