Indo Chinese style Garlic Chicken
Garlic Chicken
I had this <b>Garlic chicken</b> once in <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tangra,+Kolkata,+West+Bengal/@22.5556882,88.3750619,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3a0276920bb54a49:0x80ef71c46e7bf704!8m2!3d22.5563167!4d88.388763">Tyangda</a>, a renowned Chinese area in Kolkata. It's between Science City & Park Circus. Here the Old Chinese people stays for more than 100 years. And they survive on selling Chines food, making shoes or doing dentistry. The restaurants are not very likely, with dim lights, cheap seating areas, with Chinese home decors, Fengsui items. But they serves very good quality Chines food as well.
Indian Chinese cuisine is the adaptation of Chinese seasoning and cooking techniques to Indian tastes. The Indian Chinese cuisine is said to have been developed by the small Chinese community that has lived in Kolkata for over a century. Garlic chicken is a one of the most popular entries of Indo Chinese cuisine. Boneless marinated fried chicken cooked in Spicy garlic based sauce. The amount of garlic is used in this sauce is a lot. And that's why the gravy dominates by the Rusty garlic flavor. In chines cuisine, the garlic takes a major part, it dominates most of the important dishes like main dishes , side dishes both. You must heard of the Burnt Garlic flavored Rice Noodles etc. And the starters also the Garlic takes a major part, in stir fry or just tossing.Garlic chicken goes very well with Fried Rice Or sticky rice. It's goes well with Hakka Noodles also.
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Ingredients for Garlic Chicken
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Preperation steps for Garlic Chicken
Marinate the chicken pieces with ginger, garlic, pepper pwd, corn flour, egg white & salt. Keep marinated chicken pieces for 30 minutes and after 30 minutes deep fry the chicken and keep them on a pepper towel.
Take another non-stick pan and heat 2 tbsp of used oil and add minced garlic & chili flakes, sugar and fry for few seconds.
Add chopped onion into it and saute for 2 minutes. Now add chili garlic paste, soya sauce, tomato sauce & ajinomoto to it and let the mixture to boil for 2 minutes.
Add chicken stock & fried chicken pieces to it and bring the gravy to boil for 5 minutes .
After 5 minutes add the corn flour dissolved chicken stock and mix the gravy very well to coat the chicken with sauce. Add the chopped spring onion to it and mix it.
Enjoy the snaps
Serving Tips
Serve spicy chicken with Hakka noodle or fried rice
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