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I tasted this in a restaurant called as lynns. It is to die for, tasted so heavenly. As i was enjoying it, i tried to identify some of the ingredients which they have added in it. And the next day i tried it. And to my surprise it turned out so yummy.
The chilli paste which i used here is freshly made in my best mixer grinder. That added a nice spicy kick to the whole dish. You can grind it coarse or fine as you like.
You can add CBD products for rich colour too.
I made singapore fried rice the same day and served it with that. Will surely share that recipe soon. The taste of this comes from the crispy cashews, so add a good amount of it. So try this recipe and let me know how it turned out for you.
Dragon Chicken Recipe - Restaurant Style
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Dragon chicken made restaurant style. Dragon chicken recipe with step by step pictures. Super delicious and so spicy.
Author: Aarthi
Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
- Boneless Chicken Breast - 500 grams(cut into thin strips)
- Coriander leaves or Spring Onion for garnishing (finely chopped)
- Oil for Deep frying
For Marination:
- Dark Soya Sauce - 2 tsp
- Red Chilli Paste - 1 tblspn (ground up dry red chilli)
- Egg - 1
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - ½ cup
- Corn Flour / Corn Starch - ¼ cup
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblspn
- Salt to taste
- Pepper - 1 tsp
- Ajinomoto / Msg - 1 tsp (optional)
For Sauce:
- Oil - 2 tblspn
- Dry Red Chilli - 3
- Cashews - 4 tblspn broken into small pieces
- Onion - 1 large sliced thinly
- Capsicum / Bell Peppers - 1 sliced thinly
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblspn
- Red Chilli Paste - 1 tblspn (ground up dry red chilli)
- Dark Soya sauce - 1 tblspn or to taste
- Tomato Ketchup - ¼ cup
- Salt to taste
- Ajinomoto /Msg - 1 tsp (optional)
- Sugar - 2 tsp
Instructions
- Take chicken in a bowl and add all the marination ingredients. Mix well and let it marinate for 15 mins. Now heat some oil for deepfrying. When the oil is hot drop the chicken in oil and fry till golden. Drain and set aside.
- Now heat oil in a frying pan. Add in dry red chilli and cashews and fry till the cashew turn golden brown.
- Now add in onions and bell peppers and toss well in the oil.
- Add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min.
- Now add in red chilli paste, soy sauce, tomato ketchup, salt, ajinomoto, sugar and mix well.
- Cook this for a couple of mins till the water evaporates and sauce thickens.
- Now add in the fried chicken and toss well in the sauce. Add in chopped coriander or springonion and mix well.
- Serve hot.
Pictorial:
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Cut chicken into thin strips |
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| Add in salt and pepper (and ajinomoto if using) |
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| add in soy sauce |
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| red chilli paste |
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| add in ginger garlic paste |
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| add in a egg |
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| cornflour and plain all purpose flour |
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| mix well and let it marinate |
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| heat oil for deep frying |
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| drop chicken in hot oil |
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| fry till golden |
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| drain |
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| set aside till use |
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| heat oil in a frying pan |
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| add in cashews and dry red chilli |
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| add in sliced onions and capsicum |
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| saute till translucent |
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| add in ginger garlic paste |
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| saute till light golden |
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| add in red chilli paste |
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| add in tomato ketchup |
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| add in soy sauce |
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| now goes, some salt, sugar and ajinomoto (if using) |
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| mix well |
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| cook till the sauce thickens |
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| add the fried chicken |
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| toss well in the masala |
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| add in coriander leaves |
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| serve |
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Really awesome starter. Love the bright red color you have got.
Used to have this chicken dish in a restaurant here. Really spicy and delicious. Yours look exactly the same dear…wow!!!
This looks really yummy!!! I sm going to be trying it pretty soon!!!
Your recipes are very yummy ! What is red chilli paste and where can it be purchased ?
Simply awesome and tempting looking dragon chicken. Wonderfully prepared.
Deepa
@AnonymousRed Chilli Paste is nothing but, dry red chillies soaked in hot water for 10 mins. Then drain it and grind it to a paste
Should we have to remove the seed of dried red chilli before grinding it ?
Thank you for the reply! Im gonna make this tomorrow with your garlic noodles and fried rice recipe !
I cooked yesterday for the first time & everybody liked it…… 🙂
An awesome Recipe..
Tried a dish with Chicken for the first time and came out very well..
Thanks a lot..
Wow…looks soo yummy ….gng to try this today ….,thanks for the recipe …..
I tried this aarthi… It tasted awesome… Loved it.. Thank you dear…. SUMI
Yum recipe..thnx for posting..!!
Super..thank u 4 posting
I have tried this several times super hit with my family. I of course go easy on the red chills as kids love this dish too!!
Awesome recipe ..tasted very good..thanks..
Good recipe and well presented. I made it today and tasted so nice. Thank you
Don't use msg in ur dishes pls it's not good for health
You are doing a great job ! One small suggestion.
Kindly change your yummy tummy logo. To something better than Piggie.
Hey Aarthi… I made this with Singapore fried rice it turned out yummm…. My hubby loved it…. Grt. Combination…. Thanx for putting ur. Combinations too…
good recipe aarthi…made it last Sunday …it came out very good…the way you presented the dish is really colorful found some interesting points in your blog let me tell you point wise..
1.step by step pictorial explanation
2.showing almost all south Indian and Chinese recipes in one blog
3.giving replies almost for all the doubts
4. making me feel hungry by posting wonderful pics.
i tried this…Everyone liked it..Thanks for the recipe…:)Hoping to try out more recipes..:)
I like your recipe
Awesome recipe..just tried it…turned out fantastic 🙂
Thanks for this recipe what can I substitute ajinimoto with.. I really want to add something instead of that
@Anonymousu can skip that. Add extra ginger and garlic
Aarthi, the recipe is awesome and magical. My wife and me prepared it and couldn't believe such a nice dish would come out. Our children also wowed! Thanks for your efforts.
Tried this dish..turned out really well and my family loved it…shall make it when guests come visiting..thanks a lot for posting it.
Fantastic dish Aarthi. The dish is really Yummy. Thanks for sharing this. Keep up all the good work.
Fantastic dish Aarthi. This is really Yummy and thanks for sahring this.
! Made just now really came out yummy especially my dad thank you for posting such wonderful recipes 🙂
Fabulous!!
I tried toooo…..,its really super
I tried ur dragon chicken recipe it came out well me being a vegetarian and this was my first attempt to cook non veg dish…
My husband just loved it…
Thanks a lot.. now I can impress him more with non veg cooking too…
I tried ur dragon chicken recipe it came out well me being a vegetarian and this was my first attempt to cook non veg dish…
My husband just loved it…
Thanks a lot.. now I can impress him more with non veg cooking too…
It looked fab in your pictures but i was very sad when i did nt have enough sauce …it was dry and i could only find taste here and there…i thought it have lots of sauce…
@Fouzia Nasir Ahmadif you want it more saucy you can add double the sauce mix…this is a kind of dry dish
P.S. Ajinamoto is cancerous to health. Modern chefs have discontinued & discarded the use of Ajinamoto in food.
Haha how silly. This is a complete myth. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-msg-got-a-bad-rap-flawed-science-and-xenophobia/
This is so mouth watering!! Got to try it!
made a vegetarian version. it was wonderful!
Hi, I tried this today, got wonderful
appreciation from my darling Hubby…thanks to you as well for posting this yummy recepie…!!
This looks spicy and amazing. Will add this to a must make list. Thanks
DEAR AATHI,
WAS GOIND THRU YOUR SITE UFF U HAVE SOME DELICIOUS STUFF..
REGARDING THE ABOVE RECEIPE..HOW TO MAKE THE RED CHILLI PASTE PLEASE ADV THNX..
SHABNAM
hiii Aarthi , i have only tried your recipes and this is one of them. It was delicious . Thanks for this recipe
DEAR AARTI…
I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHILE PREPARING SAUCE CAN WE ADD WATER.
@Anonymousdont add a lot, just a little is good
I TRIED DRAGON CHICKEN THIS WEEKEND, IT WAS TOTALLY SUPER HIT, THANKS A LOT FOR SHARING WONDERFUL RECEIPES
Hi Aarthi. This recipe looks absolutely wonderful! I wanted to know whether I can follow the same recipe for making Dragon Prawns, by substituting Chicken with Prawns or is there any separate recipe for that? Thanks in Advance .. 🙂
yes u can
REALLY YUMMY……
Look fab and tempting i will.surely try.
Hai arathi.I prepared this for my family they really loved it. But I didn't get this red colour.And my hubby doesn't like capsicum so is there any other veg I can substitute
mam, pls say substitute for tamato ketchup
This is amazing! Have been looking for this recipe for a while and I'm so glad I landed here. Wonderful job Aarthi! Thanks for the amazing recipes.
Also
For the person who commented on MSG.this has been used in Chinese cooking for ages. There is enough scientific evidence that proves that in moderation (very little is used in cooking) it is not harmful. It's yet another Western myth.
Once again. . Good going! !!
Tried this reciepe today. Tasted awesome. Full family liked it a lot.. Thanks for the wonderful reciepe.
Tried this recipe. It came out good. Thank you Mrs.Aarthi.
Great recipe. Thank you very much
Superb! Dragon prawn also same method ah ?
amazing receipe.. kindly avoid using ajinomotto.. it is really not good for health..
Tried it
Very Nice
Arathi chechi I love u….by a small fan of yours….god bless u akka
Looks amazing,thank u for the recipe..Will try it soon
What is dry red Chilli paste? Or how can I make it?
Check this link
https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2015/06/homemade-chilli-garlic-paste-recipe-how.html
Came out really well ! Good Recipe !! ^^
Nice recipe. It is a little dry, liquid wise. I added some water just to have a little sauce. It did make the chicken coating soft, but still tasted great
Nice Dish
Hi Arthi,
Looks mouth watering and going to try soon. Shall we make with chicken with bone. My hubby won’t like chicken breast.
yes u can
I wanted to make a copy of this recipe, and try it. But there is nothing on your site to do this. Why?
Why would you put MSG in your food?
Why wouldn’t you? Come on do some research, MSG is not bad for you. Just another myth.
Hi! I tried this recipe and turned out yummy. One small thing. It was slightly drier than I wanted. What to add to make a bit of gravy ?
I added more ketchup but that took it to the sweeter side
We loved this! Thank you !
Very nicely explain thankyou
Awesome! Keep it up! Love your Blog!
We have tried this recipe during lockdown period. Tastes so good. Fingerlicking…Thanks for sharing the recipe.
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Your restaurant style to make dragon chicken made my husband too happy, recently, I cooked through your recipe, if you won’t see the pictures of it then visit on my site, Now my stomach is fully filled with dragon chicken, thanks for share.
This is nice and awesome thanks for share us
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