Chicken Manchurian with a desi touch

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Chinese food is comfort food. Once you’re done with gathering and cutting the ingredients, rest is quick and oh-so-easy. All you got to do is throw in the ingredients one after the other and viola! A complete meal is ready in a matter of  few minutes. Ain’t that grand or what

What you need>>>

Chicken —————– 1 kg boneless cubed
Ketchup—————– 1 cup
Vinegar—————— 4 tbsp for gravy
Spring onions———- 2 green part finely chopped
Red chillies————- 2 tsp
Salt———————- to taste
Soya sauce————- 2 tbsp
Oil———————– 3 tbsp
Onions—————— 3 medium sliced
Hot sauce————– 2 tbsp
Corn flour————- 4 tbsp
Garlic/ginger——— crushed to paste 3 tbsp
Black pepper———– 2 tsp
Sugar——————– 3 tsp
Water——————- according to need
Cornflour paste——- as needed
Capsicum————– 2 cubed shaped
All-purpose flour—- 4 tbsp
Vinegar—————- 3 tbsp for marination

How it’s made>>>

1. Marinate chicken boneless in soya sauce, vinegar, garlic/ginger paste, corn-flour, all-purpose flour, salt and black pepper for half an hour. Then deep fry and keep aside.
2. Now take oil in the pan and sautee garlic/ginger paste.
3. Add onions and cook till they are pinkish and tender.
4. Once the onions are done, add ketchup, sugar, salt, red-chillies, vinegar, hot sauce and sugar and stir well.
5. Then add spring onions, fried chicken, capsicum and mix well.
6. Pour water upto the extent of gravy you like.
7. Once it starts boiling, add cornflour to water and pour to desired consistency.
8. Simmer it for 10 minutes, once the gravy is thick, consider it done.

Side dish>>>

Serve it with Plain white rice or egg fried rice, or maybe chicken fried rice.