Chilli Chicken

Chilli Chicken is a popular chicken starter or appetizer from the Indo-chinese cuisine. Here boneless chicken are marinated in egg, cornflour, Indian spices and then fried and combined with vegetables seasoned in Chinese sauces to get the best Indo-Chinese chilli chicken. It can be served as starter or made in form of gravy and served as main course.

Ingredients-

• Sweet chilli sauce.
• Soya sauce.
• Chilli Garlic sauce.
• Vinegar.
• Diced bell peppers.
• Diced onion.
• Diagonally chopped spring onions.
• Boneless skinless chicken.
• One egg.
• Cornstarch.
• One green Chilli. 
• Red chilli flakes.
• Ginger garlic paste.
• Salt to taste.
• 1/2 teaspoon each - turmeric powder, red chilli powder, garam masala and coriander powder for chicken.
• Oil for frying.

Steps in making:

• Add the spices mentioned above and salt to the chicken.
• Add 2 tbsp cornstarch powder and one egg.
• Mix well.
• Take about 5 to 6 tbsp cooking oil and fry the chicken pieces well on both sides.

• In a large wok add the remaining oil that was used to fry the chicken.
• Put in red chilli flakes, green Chilli,  ginger garlic paste.
• After few seconds add in onions and bell peppers.
• The flames should be high and do not cover the wok.
• After cooking and stiring for 5 minutes add the sauces- Sweet chilli, chilli garlic, soy sauce. Cook for another 5 minutes. Keep stiring. Add vinegar and then the fried chicken. 
• Add salt to taste. (Add little salt as the sauces contain salt.)

This could be served as starter. In case you wish to have it as main course the chilli chicken can be made in form of gravy by adding in a cup of water mixed with cornstarch and cooking for another 5 min. Cornstarch will help in thickening the gravy..
Serve hot with Rice or Naan or any bread.