Chilli chicken with step by step pictures. Spicy chilli chicken recipe gravy version and dry version made by frying chicken and toss in a spicy chilli sauce.
Chilli Chicken Recipe
Even though i cook a lot for my family and for this blog. Someday i want to be lazy and indulge myself from restaurant foods. During those days we would dine outside in some of our favorite restaurants, but most of the time, i love to order some foods, cuddle up in a blanket and watch my favorite shows on TV enjoying those hot foods.
About Chilli Chicken Recipe
Chilli chicken is a popular Indo-Chinese dish of chicken of Hakka Chinese heritage. In India, this may include a variety of dry chicken preparations. Though mainly boneless chicken is used in this dish, some people also use bone-in chicken too.
One of my favourite foods to order on a take out is this chilli chicken. There is something so tasty about the restaurant style chilli chicken recipe. It is so delicious and kind of addictive, I have tried my hands on so many variety of chilli chicken recipe and finally got the best one. This is it!
Numerous recipes exist for the dish of the same name depending on the restaurateur, including:
- Green chilli chicken.
- Tangrai chilli chicken.
- Chinese chilli chicken.
- Bengal chilli chicken.
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Chilli Chicken Ingredients
For Frying Chicken: Chicken, All Purpose Flour, Cornstarch, Soy Sauce
Sauces for Chilli Chicken
Butter, Ginger & Garlic, Onion & Green Chillies, Capsicum & Spring Onions
- Tomato Ketchup
- Green Chilli Sauce
- Vinegar
- Soy Sauce
- Red Chilli Powder
- Black Pepper Powder
How to Make Chilli Chicken
Frying Chicken
Start by frying some chicken. Take chicken in a bowl, add in flour, cornflour, salt, pepper, soy sauce, ginger garlic paste and water. mix well. Set aside for 10 mins. Heat some oil for deep frying, drop the chicken in and fry till golden, drain and set aside.
Making Sauce
Now make the sauce, heat some butter in a pan, add in ginger garlic and fry till golden. Add in onions. green chillies, salt and sugar. Toss well. capsicum goes in and mix well. Add in red chilli powder, soy sauce, green chilli sauce, vinegar, ketchup adn mix well. Add in water and cook till oil separates.
Making chilli chicken
fried chicken goes in and toss well. Add in pepper and spring onion. Mix well. Serve hot.
📖 Recipe
Chilli Chicken | Chilli Chicken Recipe (Dry & Gravy)
Ingredients
Chilli Chicken Dry
- Chicken - ¾ kg boneless
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup
- Cornflour / Cornstarch - ½ cup
- Salt to taste
- Pepper - 1 tsp
- Soy Sauce - 2 tsp
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblspn
- Water - ¼ cup
- Oil for deep frying
For Sauce:
- Butter - 3 tblspn
- Ginger - 2 tblspn finely chopped
- Garlic - 2 tblspn finely chopped
- Onion - 1 large sliced thinly
- Green Chilli - 2 slit
- Capsicum / Bell Pepper - 1 sliced
- Tomato Ketchup - ½ cup
- Green Chilli Sauce - 3 tblspn
- Vinegar - 2 tsp
- Soy Sauce - 1 tsp
- Red Chilli Powder - 1 tblspn or to taste
- Water - ½ cup
- Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
- Spring Onion a handful finely chopped
- Salt to taste
- Sugar - 1 tsp
Chilli Chicken with Gravy
- Boneless Chicken - 500 grams
- Salt to taste
- Pepper - 1 tsp
- Baking Powder - 1 tsp
- Cornflour / Cornstarch - ½ cup
- Oil for deep frying
For Sauce
- Butter - 1 tblsp
- Ginger - 1 tblsp chopped
- Garlic - 1 tblsp chopped
- Onion - 1 large chopped finely
- Green Chillies - 6 to 8 slit
- Salt to taste
- Sugar - ½ tsp
- Soya Sauce - 2 tsp
- Green Chilli Sauce - ¼ cup
- Water - 1 to 2 cups
- Cornflour - 2 tsp
- Spring Onion a handful chopped
Instructions
Chilli Chicken Dry
- Start by frying some chicken. Take chicken in a bowl, add in flour, cornflour, salt, pepper, soy sauce, ginger garlic paste and water. mix well. Set aside for 10 mins.
- Heat some oil for deep frying, drop the chicken in and fry till golden, drain and set aside.
- Now make the sauce, heat some butter in a pan, add in ginger garlic and fry till golden.
- Add in onions. green chillies, salt and sugar. Toss well.
- Add in capsicum and mix well.
- Add in red chilli powder, soy sauce, green chilli sauce, vinegar, ketchup adn mix well.
- Add in water and cook till oil separates.
- Add in fried chicken and toss well.
- Add in pepper and spring onion. Mix well.
- Serve hot.
Chilli Chicken with Gravy
- Take chicken in a bowl, add salt, pepper and baking powder. Mix well.
- Add cornflour and mix well.
- Heat oil for deep frying, drop chicken in and fry till golden brown. Drain and set aside.
- Heat butter in a pan, add ginger, garlic and onions and saute for a min.
- Add green chillies and mix well.
- Add in all sauces, salt and sugar and mix well.
- Add water and cornflour slurry and mix well.
- Add chicken in and cook for 2 mins.
- Add spring onions and serve.
Video
Version 1 : Chilli Chicken Dry
How to Make Chilli Chicken Sauce
Version 2: Chilli Chicken Gravy
1)Take boneless chicken in a bowl.
2)Add salt, pepper and baking powder. Adding baking powder will tenderize the chicken and make it juicy.
3)Mix well.
4)Add in Cornflour
5)Mix well.
6)Heat oil for deep frying, drop chicken in and fry till golden
6)Fry till golden brown
7)Drain and set aside.
8)Fry all the chicken and set aside.
9)Heat butter in a pan
10)Add in ginger and garlic
11)Add in onions
12)Add in green chillies
13)Mix well
14)Add salt and sugar to taste
15)Add in soya sauce
16)Add in green chilli sauce.
17)Add a good amount of the sauce in.
18)Add water
19)Bring it to a boil.
20)Add in cornflour mixed with some water.
21)Cook till thickens
22)Add chicken in
23)Cook for 2 mins
24)Add spring onions
25)Serve
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Jamila Inayat
Hii wht cn v add instead of green chilli paste or hw do v mke dis paste
Anonymous
Vow yummy
Anonymous
Looks delicious... Hats off to ur effort in trying out new recipes..
Aarthi
@Jamila Inayatu can use red chilli sauce then
jamila
Okk thxx aarthi..ur all recipes r awesme..kp dng amzng cookng n v all r becmng great cooks coz of u..
plasterer bristol
wow! great recipe. one of my favorites Going to give this a go. Thanks for sharing this.
Simon
Anonymous
@Aarthi doesn't adding the tomato ketchup make the chicken sweet. Is it all right not to add the tomato sauce?
Aarthi
@Anonymousno it wont make sweet, it will make it taste great
Jeevitha sandeep
Tried this recipe!! It tasted delicious!! Have become fan of your recipes !!!! 🙂 keep going !!!
Jeevitha sandeep
Tried this recipe !! It tasted delicious !! 🙂
Purnima Selvamurugan
Tries this one tonight. I was like 😱😱. It came out So perfect Aarthi. Like hotel made.. Thanks a ton. 😍😍
Anonymous
Great recipe......juz lyk hotel made....thnx a lot.....!!!!
ayesha
#aarthi cant we skip spring onions ?? Wuld it mke the dish not so gud ?? As it is no availble during summers... In our region..
Aarthi
@ayeshayes u can skip spring onions
Sushmitha
Hello Aarthi,
Tried this recipe today, came out really well. I didnt had chilli sauce, so skipped it. Is their any alternative for it?
Husband liked it a lot.
Thanks 🙂
Aarthi
@Sushmithajust skip it or use ground red chillies and eztra little vinegar
FARIDA
Hello Aarthi,
Tried this recipe today, came out really well. Thanks a lot
Aayushee Gautam
made on the eve of holi.. was ultimate lip smacking dish. it came out to be near perfect! thankyou @aarthi ! love ur recipes!!
Debasish
Hello Aarthi,
Made it first time. Went perfect in every way. But I did not follow your quantities at all. For example, I had cut down on cornflour to almost 1/3rd, just one heaped teaspoon of All Purpose Flour / Maida, increased chili sauce quite a bit, cut on zinger and garlic, soy sauce etc.
Even after this, the whole family and guests perticularly were not willing to belive it was home made.
Thanks again and all the best wishes
Debasish
yoga bharathi
I like this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
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Kailash Rava
Finnaly I got the detailed receipe .. tnk fr sharing ..
deepak
wow...looking delicious..my mouth is watering..i like this recipe..because i like the dried Chilli Chicken very much..Thanks for the recipe..
Unknown
so useful will surely try out and let u know how it rurned out , thanks for the reciepe
Anonymous
Tried it and it came out excellent. Used egg for binding.
Anonymous
Can v add egg
Suriya
Hey ! Good recipe ! Came out well ! Its more like a Manchurian than chilly chicken ! But tastes really good ! 🙂 Thanks for the recipe !
anjali bansal
wow good recipe, I am also following http://www.bhatoora.com and written few recipes by myself.
Deepa
Here is a recipe for Chili Chicken which is very useful to me in many ways and after seeing many recipes I found here in Sateos I felt a lot of uniqueness.
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