Garlic Pepper Chicken

Merry X'Mas to all out there !!

This is one again from my Mom's diary. All my aunts  want  my mom to make this dish whenever there's a party at home. The problem is she always had a rough estimate to all her dishes that we find it difficuilt to blog with exact measurements written. Now here goes my estimate and if you feel like making adjustments here & there, you are free to do.(as if you need my permission ;) )haha

This tastes like a chinese dish and goes well with noodles or rotis. Keep the chicken fried before and saute in sauces only just before you serve; otw the chicken would turn soggy.

 Marinade:

600 grams  chicken
1/2 egg
Salt
1 1/2 tbsp  dark soy sauce
2 tablespoons  green chili sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

Other Ingredients:

1 medium size Onion chopped
1 capsicum sliced
1/4 cup garlic,  chopped
5-6 green chilies, chopped
1 tsp black pepper powder
Oil for deep frying
2 tbsp Soy sauce
2 tbsp cornstarch**
Spring Onion to garnish

Method:

Marinate chicken in  the marinade ingredients for atleast 1/2 an hour.

Deepfry this chicken in oil till it turns golden brown. Don't make it too dry.

Heat 2 tbsp of oil taken from those used for deep frying in a wok & throw in garlic to saute it for a minute or two in high flame without browning it.

Saute chopped onions in it. When it is still pink, add bell peppers into it.

Now add the sauces and when these starts to bubble, add cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 cup of water.

Add fried chicken pieces to it and mix it in sauces in high flame. Add green chillies and pepper powder to it. Garnish with spring onions .

 

You can make dry pepper chicken or with gravy. I prefer the one with gravy. This recipe is the gravy one. If you want it dry, you can reduce the amount of sauces used later and also the cornstarch.