CHICKEN MANCHURIAN RECIPE - YUMMY CHICKEN DISH

CHICKEN MANCHURIAN RECIPE

Yes, i love to cook Chinese recipes. Especially Indo Chinese chicken recipes. For all chicken lovers, here is a surefire way to please your loved ones  or guests. Chicken machurian gravy along with hot fried rice is a finger licking combo that everyones craves. This recipe for chinese chicken manjurian is pretty simple to make. No doubt that, this scrumptious chicken recipe will be on the top of Indian and Chinese restaurant menu. Deep fried boneless chicken cubes in a fiery, sweet and tangy gravy helps to balance the flavors. Lets move on to the recipe showing how to make chicken manchurian restaurant style. Need a great party starter ?? Here is yet another family favorite chicken gravy to enjoy the weekends with.  Do try this chicken manchurian dry version. So enjoy this simple chicken recipe. 

INGREDIENTS (video here)

Chicken   - 200 g, boneless, cut into small cubes

Garlic  - 2 tbsp, chopped

Green chilies  - 2 nos, chopped, I added red chilies

Chicken cube  - a small piece, optional only

Cornflour  - 1 tsp, soaked in 3 tbsp of water

Salt to taste

Celery, spring onion chopped for garnishing

Oil for deep frying and sauteing

For chicken marination

Soy sauce  - 1 tbsp, light soy sauce

Egg white  - of one egg

Garlic paste  - 2 tsp

All purpose flour / maida - 2 tbsp

Cornflour - 2 tbsp

Salt  - to taste, add less

For the sauce

Tomato sauce  - 4 tbsp

Red chili sauce  - 3 tbsp (i soaked 5 dried red chili, half tsp fennel seed and 2 garlic cloves in hot water...and then blend well to a thick paste along with a tsp of vinegar....add fewer chilies if less heat preferred)

Soy sauce - 2 tbsp

Sugar  - 1 tbsp

PREPARATION

please watch below video showing how to make chicken Manchurian

• Make small bite-sized chicken cubes (boneless preferred) and wash well. Drain it.
• Now marinate this chicken cube with all the ingredients given under for chicken marination and set aside.
• Heat a nonstick pan ( i prefer nonstick pan) and add oil for deep frying. Now fry this marinated chicken until golden and crisp. Fry in batches. Do not overcrowd. Once done, transfer it to a paper towel and set aside.
• Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. For this, combine all the ingredients given under ' for the sauce ' in a bowl. Mix them well along with a teaspoon of water and make a smooth sauce. Set aside.
• Now start preparing the gravy. Heat a pan with oil. Saute garlic chopped over a medium flame for a while. To this, add chopped chilies and saute well. 
• Then add the prepared sauce mixture and chicken cube. Mix well along with half a cup of water . Check for salt and cook until the sauce thickens.
• Then add the fried chicken to the sauce gravy and combine the chicken pieces well in the sauce gravy. Cook over a medium flame for 3 minutes.
• Then add the cornflour mixed water and mix well. When the gravy starts to thicken, remove from flame.
• Garnish with spring onions chopped and preferably serve immediately.
• It may slightly thicken once it cools down. If so, add half a cup of hot water (if more gravy required ) before serving.
• Best along with veg fried rice or butter nan.
• Watch the related video here.